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Spreading Ashes in the Ausable

Posted on July 30, 2020July 27, 2020by Teahouse

more coveted than winefrom milk, the masteralchemists of China coulddo no better than these cloudschurning into rivers, the way cottongrass renews itself or how a son returns in time to let go.

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Mindful Driving: The Antidote to Falling Down

Posted on July 28, 2020July 27, 2020by Teahouse

It took until I moved to Los Angeles for me to fully understand what motivates’ William Foster’s rampage in the 1993 action thriller movie Falling Down. True, Michael Douglas’ character has just been fired, and he is also recently divorced − it is undeniable that these factors have a part to play in the bloodbath […]

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  • George Cassidy Payne

Mindfulness Is Not

Posted on July 27, 2020July 21, 2020by Teahouse

1. A religion 2. An answer 3. A way to feel successful 4. A way to improve yourself 5. A cult 6. A scientific explanation 7. How the brain should work 8. A way of life for the enlightened 9. Ancient 10. New 11. Good for you Mindfulness is a deliberate choice, each moment, to observe […]

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  • George Cassidy Payne

Down by the Pond

Posted on July 24, 2020July 27, 2020by Teahouse

When I was 10, I had a gift. I knewwhat chirping silence meant to frogs.

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  • George Cassidy Payne

Rise

Posted on July 23, 2020July 21, 2020by Teahouse

where there is no religion but God and moon and landand sea and the gathering of otherswho are ready for you to believe.

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  • George Cassidy Payne

A Canceled Appointment

Posted on July 22, 2020July 21, 2020by Teahouse

I speak and my wordsdisrupt the universe.  I touch and my fingerprintsearn marks in the earth  that will outlast mountains.If you cancel, I will be born again. If you don’t, I will live forever.  

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  • George Cassidy Payne

The Holy Spirit

Posted on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020by Teahouse

is copper infused tulipsfloating in mineral water,tilting under a Himalayan salt lamp. Pray and be kind to it. Play Otis and Mozart for it.Treat it like a friend who you always want to go out with.

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  • George Cassidy Payne

As Benedictines

Posted on July 20, 2020July 20, 2020by Teahouse

We see a single incandescent light beneath the pond,a flash at the bottom of four stemmed glasses, as if we were still in the Orleanais,where sins are garnished with clams and stewed in the finest vichyssoise.

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  • George Cassidy Payne

Stormy Night

Posted on July 15, 2020July 15, 2020by Teahouse

There is a loneliness to hail dropson a tin-roofed cabin. The woods and flowers and secrets ofmountains are lonely. So are the trails, ponds, and bridges; the vanished sources looking for a beginning. Dripping drops a million years in the making. Falling asleep in the wounded soil of dreams.

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  • George Cassidy Payne

Heaven and Earth

Posted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020by Teahouse

I am left timeless. My skin is timeless. Like the rusty mercury gauge in an old Chevy.  I am gazing upon Christ. I am aggressive.My density is aggressive. I am an out of body  experience. My blood pressure drops to zero. I am a cardiac arrest. The feeling of absolute resolution.  I am the hangings, shootings, and burnings. I […]

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