New Travel

The call continues, to flex, to stretch, 

inside tendons pull, hold needing movement, no

place of settled knowledge.

Australia was a new land for me, the physical 

journey long,  the emotional, the spiritual continue.

What was the highlight in a minute or ?  

I seek, 

a truth full answer. 

travel, where will it take me?  

Always travelling,  

sometimes it includes 

new lands.

gkn November 2015

Home

Today is Tuesday November 17

Yesterday Peter sent me some snippets of "Australiana",  as I was headed back to Canada.  One of them was this country song

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6W7-Mvul24 

speaks to my experience of life in this moment.  

What a country mile or two I have walked,  and now that I am back home in Ontario,  being, observing, noticing I am as,  I wonder where will the next mile take me? 

gkn November 17 2015

Homeward Bound I

 Virgin flight 750 to Melbourne has boarded,

kisses have been thrown and blown, rainforest visited, 

stories, laughter,  times of awareness, and not, shared.

Inspiration offered Gangaji, Eli, Richard Rohr, 

ideas exchanged,  what now, 

be,  as always the instruction Be

Shared journeys, comfort in being seen, recognized.

" you will be different when you return" 

" it will change you" 

" I wonder how, now" 

One night more in Australia, a sleep, short, in an airport hotel, 

until Los Angeles, and Toronto welcome me home, 

from noticing wallaby, blue, almost turquoise bird, unindentified as yet, 

palms, dolphins, lizards ( called by many names) eucalyptus over 500 types, 

koalas who only like 6 types, kangaroo, flowers bright blooms on trees, shrubs, bushes, 

tiny stemmed, and birds, king parrots, pigeons, fairy blue wren, cockatoo,  magpies, 

mistletoe bird to name a few, the southern cross. 

welcome me home to continued noticing, 

 me, you, 

all 

Integrated being 

Prescence

Now.

Homeward bound II

Sun rise shadowed by hotel blinds, 

keeping reflections of homelands, mine, 

others            muted.

my journey so personal, so blessed, in the

midst of world news,  an election offered hope, 

fear continues to divide,  deaths,  a university in Niarobi, 

lives

filled with hope, like mine,  

destroyed, 

found walking, climbing on boats, 

seeking, longing, 

for 

home.

I am in the airport,  preparing to flyhome,

 from homes abroad,  from safety to safety, 

love to love.

Blessed and blessing all, 

energetic offerings visioning home, 

security, love for all 

filled with deep gratitude.

gknNovember.2015

Happy birth day to me

Thirty five years ago,  

a gift came to earth.  

I gave her birth, sacred honour.

gkn November 14 2015

Green Caldron

On the edge, sitting, standing, watching, 

for wallabys,  while cockatoo's broad wings, yellow 

flared cocks, fly in and out of my vision, 

Where are the wallabys? 

Watching, waiting.

Sitting on the edge in sacred

space created 

Inhabited

shared, 

gifted to me 

Now.

gkn November 2014

See wonder

King parrots, cockatoo's, kookaburra, 

my day begins,  Squishy and Bambi offer me 

a tail wagging greeting, my home on the edge

of the green cauldron,  Peter casually asks, 

do you have snakes?  We'll have to find some 

for you to see, red belly black, brown, green tree, 

 we had a brown carpet snake, python, on the step, 

they get in the roof to eat the mice...

yes,  walk in the grass, and watch

you could see 

wallabies hop by the back door, black, or brown 

one has a joey.

Astral Cafe date scone with jam, cream 

tea in pot, cup and saucer,  

yellow arborite table tops, blue 

booths, padded,  milk shake of the week,

fruit salad, pies savoury here, breads, cakes, 

muffins iced under clear cake cover 

with bird handles, like the ones 

my mother had

"I wonder, " she says in skype conversation , " will you notice as much when you are home? 

gkn November 2015

Opening

Path, bumpy, well trodden,

not really,  sunlight shadowed by

clouds by old growth forests,

 past constructions zones,  big

distracting equipment,  interesting only

to a small child, often male, cross high water, 

darting waves, unpredictable dips, shorelines. 

gentle breeze brushes body, soul,

sunshine, blue skies, 

distant clouds, horizons 

becon.

gkn November 2015