ricepaper's Journal

apricot wood, autumn emptiness, baobab limbs, birchsilver, black oak, bliss beyond emotion, burgundy, calla lilies, cardamon, certain blue hours, cloisters & monasteries, compassion, creation myths, dalai lamas & popes, depth&breadth of human experience, devotional desire, dialogues of reconciliation, dissolution, expansiveness, fingertips, genetics as connection, gentleness, gestures of meditation, graceful biology, grains of rice, hollowstomached cellos, home, humility before the body, incandescence, joyful clarity of being, kisses, latesummer berries, little old houses, love eclipsing suffering, love's fire consuming pain, mahogany with a touch-patina, mendicant monks, metallurgy, mindfulness, modern mythologies/cosmologies of science&medicine, moving toward &allowing love, museums, musicians from mali, night faith, oak-hickory forests, oceanglass, opening, peonies, piercing cold sunshine, poetry as distillation, qawwali, relinquishing ego & limitations, ritual & liturgy, rosaries, russian orthodox iconography, rusting machinery, sacred architecture, serenely embracing all possibilities, shared humanity, silences between lovers, snow, social justice, softspoken strangers, stained glass (especially blue), sufficiency, symmetry, the nursing madonna, the palette of sunset, the sunrise ruby, the velveteen rabbit, traditional medicine, unabashed children, water, wholeness, winter sharpness, wombs & seeds, woodgrain