connection – C.M. Rivers

August 20, 2020

Medicine in the Moment

The essence of time is found spontaneously in moments, not measured in minutes. Minutes are fleeting, moments are precious. Minutes are disposable, moments are priceless. In man’s strange invention of measured time, minutes tick tick tick away, evaporating, yet somehow stacking up to become the years of our life, a row of slender volumes held Continue reading

Contemplative Essays

connection, medicine, meditation, mindfulness, moments, Time

June 13, 2020

Making Conversation

Turn over the stone of what is not true to discover what is possible… Continue reading

Poetry

body mind spirit, connection, Dreams, earth, featured, mindfulness, Poetry

May 26, 2020

How To Carry Soup

“Time now to gather the wild grain of yourself, kindle the spark of yourself…” Continue reading

Poetry

body mind spirit, connection, earth, ecology, ecopoetry, featured, mindfulness, nature, transformation, wild, yoga

May 17, 2020

Walkabout

“Alone as you feel, you are with all the world” Continue reading

Contemplative Essays

backpacking, body mind spirit, connection, earth, featured, hiking, Inspiration, mindfulness, nature, Walkabout, walking

February 20, 2015

Many Brothers

Connection erases age, weakens constraints, strengthens the bond of brotherhood. I have crossed many valleys. I have loved many brothers. Treetops creak and bang the way the screen door did in my own lost boyhood. A wind has risen. Dying leaves pray for us all as they descend, knowing how to honor their own wisdom. Continue reading

Poetry

connection, Love, Poetry, walking