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September 29, 2020
Online Meditation with Andy Furst – April 14, 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 14, 2020
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September 22, 2020
No Home
Where do I put this dust;
without a mantle
and the yellow paste of nicotine
to hold it fast?
Walls and windows cling to me,
Desperately;
Like a name to a place or a face
Or like my love is stuck to you.
The brown bristly welcome mat tells me
The universe is not a home.
As do the locks, the lamps,
and the chimneys.
My coffee stains and I
Would have no place to leave our mark.
Words would make no sense.
The dog would just go anywhere.
What a stupid thing
to think the universe is anything but a cold dark other.
What else could it be?
There are no floors and no ceilings.
Breakfast and the cycles of love and hate
Are left, space less.
As if God had nothing to say
And the trash had nowhere to go.
The preachers that say,
“the moss on the house won’t need washing”
They lie.
It was cholera that built these walls, not love,
And I won’t give them up.
Published in Ink In Thirds June 2019
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September 15, 2020
Online Meditation with Andy Furst – March 31, 2020
This is the first online meditation I 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.
March 31, 2020
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September 1, 2020
Bessie’s Point – A One Minute Meditation
Goldsmith Woodlands is a local hike maintained by the Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS) that I stroll every once in a while with my dog Waffles. There are two endpoints on Foster’s pond. This one is called Bessie’s Point.
Bessie’s Point, Goldsmith Woodlands, Andover, MA
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August 25, 2020
Online Meditation with Andy Furst – April 7, 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 7, 2020
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August 18, 2020
Stroked
The memories are heavy,
childhood sun stroke summer day memories.
Burning beach sand and blacktop
are as much a part of me as the palms of my hands.
On dog days, I live in the shade.
That is where the truth starts with me.
Hazy lemonade eyelids and
Slippery blistered swatches of skin,
simmer under pooled and salty sweat.
This is my mind, nothing but my mind.
But what could I know about that?
What does a mind’s eye see?
Not a brain,
and I see no map of me.
On bad days, I avoid the noon day sun.
That is where the truth ends with me.
The weight of it, is in this memory:
Veering my bike into the car,
scraping across the hot summer asphalt
floating on that black acrid smell.
At night, I breath in the cool air.
This is where the truth is.
Published in Spectrum Literary Journal December 2019 Vol. 62
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August 4, 2020
Big Falls – A One Minute Meditation
Winter has its charms for the waterfall chaser. This is Big Falls in Troy Vermont. March 13, 2017. 2° Fahrenheit makes for gorgeous ice formations.
Big Falls, Troy, VT
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July 21, 2020
9:39
dandelion stems
cracked open in the slow breeze
are my calendar
Published in Spectrum Literary Journal December 2019 Vol. 62
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July 14, 2020
Summer Worship Service – July 12, 2020
I led today’s summer worship service at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading. In it, I offered a series of reflections on my brush with death in 2019. my recovery, and the insights I gained about healing.
My favorite part is the recessional music performed by Roald Wilson at the end. It’s worth waiting for.
July 12, 2020
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July 7, 2020
Stella’s Snows – A One Minute Meditation
Feeling the sound
of silence
Gives me a sense
of real
listening.
urging me to ask
the question:
what is the sound
of nothing?
Jay, Vermont
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