malibumark

Good morning, have a sunny happy day!

I struggle with my faith at times.i was sitting in morning meal this morning. The reading while we ate in silence really resounded with warnings about following the rules of god and things like we...

I have an aspect to me that is impulsive and insatiable I know we can’t always feel good in life and this impulsive insatiable side can cause my mind to eat away at me with thoughts or taunts....

Pray to understand itpray to write about itpray to achieve itkeep on keeping on

while going through my day, i tried to keep focused on the task in front of mebut inevitably I suppose due to fatigue or even a creative mind -my perspective was shifted to 'outside of me' to a broad...

I recently talked to my sister about taking a trip to Scotland.I really want to go and she thinks it a great idea. I am so excitedthat she likes the idea too. She's the voice of reason in my life a...

I went down to church today, at around 450am. I was happy as a clam. As I got the church ready for service my mind eventually became invaded by thoughts.i can get quite squirrely and joyful inside...

it's my Dad's birthday. He turns 88 today. He just wants it to be celebrated just as any otherday. He's really an heroic Dad. I feel so blessed. I could sit and listen to him for hours.He's precious...

the definition i need or the validation or perhaps the understanding i need.I noticed that I was seeking something tangible or map worthy of my lifeas an artist and an individual for that matter...I...

I wonder if when my art becomes so personal for me, others don't have a way of accessing it emotionally or intellectually. I wonder if I need to make a bridge somehow creatively to communicate wit...

when i was younger, i would follow my romantic thoughts about life. I wanted to experience the fruitsof adult life and yet I wasn't so wise about the pragmatics of it....But now I am here in my cell...

feel so lucky.this morning i woke up and just yearned for freedom. freedom to do and be whoeveri wanted to be. felt trapped by the morning of duties here at the monastery - butthen we had morning...