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Morning Meditation with Andy Furst – Jun 1, 2020

Another online meditation offered through the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading. The series began when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced our church to move to an online format.

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Morning Meditation with Andy Furst – May 6, 2020

Another online meditation offered through the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading. The series began when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced our church to move to an online format.

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Online Meditation with Andy Furst – April 29, 2020

Another online meditation offered through the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading. The series began when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced our church to move to an online format.

April 29, 2020

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Black Stream Falls – A One Minute Meditation

The First Season

soaked, raw, and cold

is the season that sows our love

that lays out green pastures

and lambs

It crashes

down the mountains

on a deafening roar

to set this heart afire

Black Stream Falls, Sangerville, ME

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Newton Corner

(the negation of John 1:1 in relative time and space)

Hunting yard sales with a map and the want ads;

I drove, and she navigated.

Real navigating – before phones told us where to turn.

The other two, A woman and a man,

Were walking from Farlow Park to Church Street.

She would speak. He went mostly unnoticed.

The car turned down Waverly onto Church.

Moving from the familiar to the uncertain;

Trying to get the tires of the car onto the streets on the map.

Further down Church Street,

the old Volvo settled up to the curb,

and we met.

Knowing now that we construct our futures out of the past,

I have to reflect, all these years later,

on the brokenness of it all.

There is an alleyway scribbled on the map of the human heart.

Hidden doorways open to it, letting phantoms come and go.

You can tell by the holes in their shadows

that a broken heart is a broken mind.

As all the futures quietly worked themselves out,

three of us began speaking the words,

moving our faces and swirling our hands like zealous cartographers.

Then, there in front of the Church on Church Street,

The woman, with mind and vows so pure,

crushed our delusions.

Now and then I wonder

on the revelation she dropped on us:

“I’m sure you have a very nice map”

Published in Panoplyzine May 2019

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The Sky Is Crying – A One Minute Meditation

The Sky Is Crying

The sky is crying,

Can you see the tears roll down the street.

The sky is crying,

Can you see the tears roll down the street.

I’ve been looking for my baby

And I’ve been wondering where can she be

I my baby early one morning

She was walking on down the street

I my baby early one morning

She was walking on down the street

You know it hurt me, hurt me so bad

It made my poor heart skip a beat

I got a real, real fine feeling

That my baby she don’t love me no more

I got a real, real fine feeling

That my baby she don’t love me no more

You know the sky’s been crying

Can see you see the tears roll down my door

Elmore James

Cambridgeport, MA

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Online Meditation with Andy Furst – April 23, 2020

Another online meditation offered through the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading. The series began when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced our church to move to an online format.

April 23, 2020

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Dancing Mist on Greylock – A One Minute Meditation

After a visit to March Cataract Falls on the west side of Greylock mountain, I had to drive up to the summit for a rest and more photos. I caught thi time-lapse of the quickly shifting mist looking out over Adams.  You can see the rising currents of air as these clouds formed and rode up. Then, just as quickly, they passed away.

Greylock Mountain, Adams, MA

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Over near the Big Christian Indian in Lowell

I got to a Lowell cemetery

to the gravesite of Jack Kerouac.

They say that information Is just alienated experience.

That’s just another way of saying life is more fucked up than the news.

So, it follows that the grave is just alienated information about a life.

Senseless too.

Senseless as Jack, whose is dead,

and oblivious to the rhythms of you and your soulmate

making love to the idea of screwing near Jack,

and each other.

Drunk on Cognac or boredom

You’ll eventually come to terms

With how separate anything afterlife is.

It’s more meaningless than information.

Less than memory, or being hated,

or sharing a smoke with your soulmate

after a good lay in the graveyard.

Published in Duck Lake Journal August 2019

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Buttermilk Falls – A One Minute Meditation

Buttermilk Falls is a common name for a waterfall. There are at least three with that name in Southern New England that I know of. I took in these falls on a trip to see my parents in January 2017.

I took a few excursions out to shoot some falls. On the way here, I traveled through New Britain – the town I was born in – and Bristol – where some fuzzy memories of childhood took place.

These falls are beautiful in the winter. There was a recent snow, and the hiking was slippery. But it was worth the trip.

Buttermilk Falls, Plymouth, CT.

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