MeadowSong

Billy Joel’s debut album, ancient Mayan initiation, and a dream of the God-Woman.

For a friend: weariness, commitment, and new life.

Fall leaves, the poetry of Frost, and slowing down.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, artificial intelligence, and things we fear.

Birth, a heart split in two, and threads of fate and destiny.

Billy Joel, dreams of exotic instruments, and the myth of Er.

Veterans Day, apartheid, and the Hymn of Thanksgiving.

Fall foliage, the consolidation of political power, and the transcendence of duality.

Romantic poetry, cross-linguistic parapraxis, and Love as a revelatory force.

Election deception, dream interpretation, and the cracks in consensus reality.

Lawn mowers, exile from the Garden, and drought in the American West.

Conch shells, West Indian emancipation, and the value hidden in what we discard.

Street performers, Tevye’s daughters, and a young man embracing his gift.

Spiders and flies, interwoven etymologies, and an old story from West Africa.

Endangered fireflies, the summer solstice, and the energetic bridge between opposites.

Guns, heroism, and a musical lament for the victims of shootings.

Mud, the stone of Sisyphus, and the state of vocational morale in America.

Clinging to the knees of giants, the scaffold, and support from the inner other.

Tolkien’s Ring, the dissolution of all things, and a thought for Earth Day.

The Shoemaker and the Elves, the inner voice of young people, and an old hymn tune.

Being a father to sons, balancing the inner opposites, and a psychodynamic analysis of Disney's Moana.

The equinox, Ukraine, and an act of beauty in the midst of violence.

A walk down a gorge, a waterfall, and stream-of-consciousness.

Teenaged initiations, Plato's daimon, and an old story from Japan.

The Groundhog, our shadows, and candles lit for the new year.