“Starbursts in May” | Anthony Satori
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems by Heart
nature
That is Prayer
“Hawk on a Lamp Post” | Anthony Satori
“Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they’re thirsty. That’s prayer. They don’t live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.”
– Mary Oliver
A Good Traveler
“The Middle Way” | Anthony Satori
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
– Lao Tzu
This is true. A good traveler also knows the direction they wish to go, and they continue to seek ways to keep themselves moving in that direction, each day.
On the one hand, our Good Traveler knows that the journey is the destination, and so they strive to remain present and grateful, each step of the way. On the other hand, they are also mindful and conscious in their choice of the direction they wish to go, and they continue to pursue this good and worthy aim with enthusiasm, clarity, and drive.
This is the middle way.
After the Rain
“A Happy Snail (After the Rain)” | Anthony Satori
“Anything you lavish with attention can become a mirror, a portal, a lens on the meaning of life – a dandelion, a muskrat, a mountain, a snail.”
– Maria Popova
So Many Kinds of Yes
“Solar Eclipse 2024” | Anthony Satori
“such a sky and such a sun ~ i never knew and neither did you ~ and everybody never breathed ~ quite so many kinds of yes”
– e. e. cummings
Where to be Happiest
“The First Poppies” | Anthony Satori
“When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Home
“Purple Starbursts” | Anthony Satori
“Home is the nicest word there is.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
I Am an Emperor Penguin
“Emperor Penguin” | Anthony Satori
Emperor penguins are lovely creatures. They are smart and playful. They slide on their bellies in the snow, and they swim with the grace of a majestic bird when they are under the water. Emperor penguins mate for life. They know when they have found the one, and they stay together from that moment forward, forever. They don’t let anything come between them. They don’t let anything pull them apart. I think this is truly a beautiful thing. If you had the chance to go back in time, would you be like an emperor penguin? Would I? I’d like to think that we would. And if, by God’s grace, I ever have the chance again, I believe that I will. Because in my heart, in my nature, I am an emperor penguin.
The Movement of Thought and Feeling
“Black and Yellow Butterfly on Blue Flowers” | Anthony Satori
“Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
From Wonder into Wonder
“Beach Path” | Anthony Satori
“From wonder into wonder existence opens.”
– Lao Tzu
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