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June 10, 2020
Agassiz Basin – A Two Minute Meditation
Chasing the sunset
on route 112
into the quiet
on the frost-heaved roads
of February’s
snow covered
White Mountains
Agassiz Basin, Woodstock, NH
The Waterfall Series - A significant part of the minute meditation series are these waterfall videos I've been taking for many years now. Most of the falls are in my native New England.
If you're a waterfall chaser here, I highly recommend the New England Waterfalls Guidebook. It's the best way to locate, select, and get to the falls.
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May 25, 2020
Quilts
Sewn from what’s on hand,
Scraps of love, and comfort, and longing.
Each square tethered to the next
Like family at the table.
Threaded with tea and troubles.
Steeped in unspoken sorrows and sequestered joys.
These disembodied fabric versions of ourselves,
Linger over the dreams of our daughters and sons
In forms and memories
we might not always abide.
Published in Gravitas Dec 2019
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May 22, 2020
Forty-eight miles per second every million lightyears
My memory and I walked our childhood backyard.
Often enough, we’ve looked over its green clover
with empty sidelong glances.
Sometimes we’d climb the great pine
long fallen,
or admire the flowers of sharon and irises
whose dust was swept down river
in summers,
until the swamp took over.
This time we set feet firmly, pocketed hands and lifted chin.
Meditating in the space between my father and us.
Leaving the hydrangeas and nightshade behind,
the universe – on the wave of a singularity – expanded,
but this sloping pitch to the river somehow looks smaller.
It must be true that only the spaces between are growing.
Published in Levee Magazine November 2018
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May 14, 2020
Washing Away – A Two Minute Meditation
With the rhythm of your
breath
Let the rippling of the
water gently wash away
what needs to be let go of.
Washing Away
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April 17, 2020
Tartia-Engel Falls – A Two Minute Meditation
It’s hard to imagine winter as a season of bounty. I visited Tartia-Engel Falls for the first time in the summer of 2016. Because of the drought, there was no evidence of water having flowed there except the bridge. In February 2017, while visiting my parents in Manchester, I stopped back to have a second look. This is what I found.
Tartia-Engel Falls, East Hampton, CT
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March 21, 2020
Quechee Dam – A One Minute Meditation
Quechee Dam
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February 23, 2020
Patience – A Two Minute Meditation
Patience, It will come.
It has always been coming.
It has always been here.
Patience
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January 27, 2020
Chapman Falls – A Two Minute Meditation
Chapman Falls – East Haddam, CT
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December 31, 2019
Lilies on Sudden Pond – A One Minute Meditation
A peek on to a small gathering of lilies
Lilies on Sudden Pond, Harold Parker State Park
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Minute Meditations is an ongoing series of short videos, poems, and commentary intended as a meditation. Offered as an opportunity to step back from your cyber routine and settle into a more natural rhythm, if only for a minute.
Dialectic Two Step, Modern Koans, Verse Us, Say What?, and Minute Meditations all copyright Andrew Furst
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These videos are produced for those of us who spend an inordinately large amount of time in the cyber-world. They are not a substitute for unplugging from your devices and taking a stroll near trees, water, or a patch of unkempt grass. Getting out into the world – touching, smelling, hearing, and seeing nature is the best way to reconnect with our prime purpose.
What is our prime purpose? We are feeling and sensing machines. We are the universe looking back on itself. We are witness to the wonders and dangers of living in this corner of the cosmos. We are the seekers looking for connection a little further beyond yesterday’s borders and boundaries.
But sitting and staring at the screen robs us of the sustenance that we rely upon for wonder and sanity. These videos are an opportunity to bring the sensations of nature to you, while you’re in the cyber-world. Its an opportunity to relax your gaze, resettle your posture, and regain some depth in your breath. Listen and watch the video and allow your self to open up and recharge.
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December 4, 2019
Solstice Bonfire – A Two Minute Meditation
A nice crisp December evening in 2016 next to the solstice bonfire.
Solstice Bonfire, Dover-Foxcroft, MA
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Minute Meditations is an ongoing series of short videos, poems, and commentary intended as a meditation. Offered as an opportunity to step back from your cyber routine and settle into a more natural rhythm, if only for a minute.
Dialectic Two Step, Modern Koans, Verse Us, Say What?, and Minute Meditations all copyright Andrew Furst
Subscribe to My NewsletterJoin me for a little peace through reflection, art, video, sound, and poetry
These videos are produced for those of us who spend an inordinately large amount of time in the cyber-world. They are not a substitute for unplugging from your devices and taking a stroll near trees, water, or a patch of unkempt grass. Getting out into the world – touching, smelling, hearing, and seeing nature is the best way to reconnect with our prime purpose.
What is our prime purpose? We are feeling and sensing machines. We are the universe looking back on itself. We are witness to the wonders and dangers of living in this corner of the cosmos. We are the seekers looking for connection a little further beyond yesterday’s borders and boundaries.
But sitting and staring at the screen robs us of the sustenance that we rely upon for wonder and sanity. These videos are an opportunity to bring the sensations of nature to you, while you’re in the cyber-world. Its an opportunity to relax your gaze, resettle your posture, and regain some depth in your breath. Listen and watch the video and allow your self to open up and recharge.
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