SEEDS

Self inside self, You are nothing but me.
Self inside self, I am only You.

What we are together will never die.
The why and how of this?

What does it matter?

Lalla
Translated by Coleman Barks

Another calendar year has begun and there is the promise of new beginnings and shedding the old.  Here in the northern hemisphere, nature echoes this sense of hope for release of the past and offering of renewal.  The red-breasted birds referred to as robins have reappeared, and tiny buds are showing on the...