Yellow Ananda

Welcome to my east-looking garden.

I have shed multiple skins. No skin-shedding ritual was a painful as this one, and none so beautiful.

2024.10.30

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Lots of coins, and too few cups to hold them. Not enough swords to keep the wands away. Unseen, quiet, inner-centered. One word, Bāṭin.

2024.10.29

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Finding no rest in sleepless nights, I turn to the moon for wisdom, only to find her mute and invisible.

2024.10.28

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Towers collapse outside while in the shadow of my library I build a cathedral. Whatever rises from the dust, I will cherish it.

2024.10.27

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The scars of what never happened inflict more pain than their habitual torture. In chaos, even the consistency of discomfort feels nurturing.

2024.10.26

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Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree. The orphan fruit rolls down the path of the Fool, undisturbed, unblushing.

2024.10.25

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When your teary eyes reflect the version of me I want to be, when the anguish in your falling eyebrows invites me to fall with you, all I do is hide. In my footsteps I leave the secret hope for your embrace.

2024.10.24

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Norns in disguise sometimes appear at the most unexpected moment. Tell me not what is to come, what is to fear, what is to hope. I would rather you broke my heart open so that light can enter it.

2024.10.23

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In the lands of disconnect, the traumatized is free. In the alien lavender fields, circles are walked, and not by me.

2024.10.22

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The salty air of your Phocean streets grabs my hand to take me on a journey with no destination but the Now.

2024.10.21

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