...."Perfect Silence.... Sunrise/Afternoon May 5, 2015

"When I heard the learn'd astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures,
were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars."
Walt Whitman


a familiar bio on this page
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/when-i-heard-learned-astronomer

PULL AWAY INTO ME, DEAR HEART…
.ALWAYS THE SOLUTION TO ANY HEAVINESS OR PUZZLEMENT. 
ESPECIALLY NOW,
THE HOLY QUIET WILL ENABLE MY WORK TO TAKE PLACE MORE QUICKLY…
AT THE SAME TIME IT WILL NOURISH YOU
DURING THESE VERY LEAN TIMES…

THE EGO DRAGS A SOUL ALL ABOUT…
DRAINING THE PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND SPIRITUAL BODIES,
UNTIL THE BEING COLLAPSES ONCE AGAIN…
AND EACH TIME INTO MORE PERFECT GRACE
WHERE ALL VEILS ARE REMOVED

ew
Transcending Possession
approx. 1992

Words from that which is “older than God”*
*#4 Tao

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes.
 Because for those who love with heart and soul
there is no such thing as separation.

—Rumi

There were strong winds and hours of flood rains all morning until late afternoon today. 
The above photos
.... of water standing around small fruit trees and in the old garden lot..
.were taken three hours after the rains stopped and after i returned from the afternoon beach.
  Much of the water had already seeped into the ground.