HANDSTAND/day

Happy International Handstand Day!!

NIGHT/dance

INTERVIEW/tony

Interview with Anthony Quaglieri. Tony has been coming to Easton Mountain for many, many years. He's has some extraordinary experiences here. He tells about one of them.

I'm starting an interview series of Easton Mountain guests, volunteers and residents. This is the first of the series.

MICHAEL/me

Tony interviewed Michael and me today about our friendship. This really captures the essence of our playful, brotherly connection. I'm so grateful that he is here at Easton Mountain for the summer.

HARDBOILED/egg

i woke up this morning feeling like i just wanted to hibernate. so i skipped breakfast and lingered in bed just relaxing and catching up with all my thinking. tony, who is visiting me from tampa, dropped off some hard-boiled eggs for me. sweet. the first egg i devoured. the second egg im saving for later. it's one of those weird twilight-zone kinda days.

FIRE/fly

Last night me and the boys-- Michael, Jeff and Arturo headed up the mountain for a full moon night hike. We were surrounded by swarms of floating and flittering fireflies. It was magical beyond description. At the top Arturo put on a gypsy dance for us in an abandoned cabin with a single flashlight for the lighting.

SUMMER/crush

LOVE/fund

"Let us insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace,. Money will come if we seek first the kingdom of God."

-- Mother Teresa

ST/francis

St. Francis and The Sow

Galway Kinnel

The bud

stands for all things,

even those things that don't flower,

for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;

though sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness,

to put a hand on its brow

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;

as St. Francis

put his hand on the creased forehead

of the sow, and told her in words and in touch

blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow

began remembering all down her thick length,

from the earthen snout all the way

through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of

the tail,

from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine

down through the great broken heart

to the blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering

from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking

and blowing beneath them:

the long, perfect loveliness of sow.

CLOUD/scape

ALTOID/car

TALKING/balls

CAMP/fire

Campfire inspired by my new friend Doug Allen who inspired a fun evening of drumming, dancing and stargazing around the fire.