Posted in Art, Body, Bones, Culture, Labyrinths, Maps, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Spirituality, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged circles, coloring as practice, Coloring Mandalas, Labyrinths, mandalas, Susanne F. Fincher, The Great Round, walking the labyrinth, Wheel of Life on March 31, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I’m cutting it close on the March mandalas! In a few hours, it will be April. Though you would not know it by the 9 inches of blizzard outside the window. The Great Round: Stage Three mandalas follow one of my favorite forms — the labyrinth.
These have been the most fun for [...]
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Posted in Art of Rebellion, Body, Culture, Growing Older, Labyrinths, Life, Personal, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged mandalas, memories, Tattoo You, writing about tattoos on March 10, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I thought about getting a tattoo. In my 40’s. I changed my mind at the last minute. It was going to be a lynx. Yeah, the puffy jowls that look like Kiev’s. When you brush her hair back, her face is thin and pointy like Chaco’s. But naturally, it’s wider at the edges than it [...]
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Posted in Art, Body, Bones, Family, Labyrinths, Maps, Photography, Practice, Quotes, Spirituality, Structure, Wake Up, tagged circles, coloring as practice, Coloring Mandalas, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, mandalas, mandalas for kids, Ouroboros, Sacred Circles, Susanne F. Fincher, The Great Round, Wheel of Life on January 26, 2008 | 47 Comments »
Coloring Mandalas, A Few Snapshots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2008, all photos © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Relaxing Saturday winter night. Liz and I are coloring mandalas and watching a documentary on Beat Generation poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Liz bought a book on Coloring Mandalas by Susanne F. Fincher. It contains 48 sacred circle [...]
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Posted in Culture, I Don't Remember, Labyrinths, Personal, Place, Practice, Relationships, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged circles, gadgets, memories, what's in front of me on January 16, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Circles, I’m popping circles into my mouth. I’m addicted to Trader Joe’s bucket of miniature chocolate chip cookies. I couldn’t figure out why they tasted so good. It was Liz who piped up, “Oh, it’s the butter…” when she read the label after dinner.
Circles in cubes, the rubber bottom of a stainless steel coffee cup, [...]
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Posted in 25 Things, Body, Bones, Books, Haiku, Labyrinths, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Quotes, Seasons, Silence, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Basho, Beginner's Mind, Clark Strand, Ghost Ranch, haiku (one-a-day), haiku as practice, haiku walk, how to write haiku, meditation, Natalie Goldberg, Seeds from a Birch Tree, walking the labyrinth on January 15, 2008 | 303 Comments »
Skin Of A River Birch, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
haiku (one-a-day)
This post was created for a very specific purpose: writing a haiku a day. Some of our readers have expressed an interest in haiku. And some have left haiku in our comments on various posts. I wanted to [...]
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Posted in 25 Things, Art, Dreams, Family, Gratitude, Holidays, Labyrinths, Life, Love, Maps, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Topic Writing, Vision, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged community as witness, end of the year rituals, Labyrinths, making a Gratitude List, New Year's resolutions, prosperity, reflecting on the past, the ABC's of Gratitude, The Places I've Walked, the power of Gratitude on December 31, 2007 | 30 Comments »
The Places I’ve Walked, walking a brick labyrinth, Martinez, Georgia, June 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved
It’s New Year’s Eve (almost a whole New Year, ybonesy!). I’m working on the black-eyed peas and rice post. And I’ve got to say the orangutan’s butt is a pretty hard act to follow! But I’m [...]
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Posted in Bones, Culture, Family, Gratitude, Growing Older, Home, Labyrinths, Life, Love, Maps, Memoir, Nature, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Spirituality, Structure, Travel, Wake Up, Writing, tagged ancestors, Augusta, brick, Family, fathers, geocaching, Georgia, history, Labyrinths, mothers, The South on June 8, 2007 | 12 Comments »
-Edges, labyrinth in Martinez, Georgia, June 7th, 2007, all photos © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It was 96 degrees at 5pm. Mom and I did a quick geocache in Martinez, Georgia, right off of Columbia Road and Buckboard Drive. Geobrother, who has logged more than 1000 caches, gave us a few tips. I have [...]
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Posted in Haiku, Labyrinths, Nature, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Spirituality, tagged Haiku, Practice, Seasons, walking the labyrinth on March 28, 2007 | No Comments »
i come here often
to ponder higher learning
ice like busted glass
crinkly brown leaves glow
first bare feet of the season
away from center
cool black mud follows
the ripple of blowing hair
under secret feet
out of season wind
shadowboxing the bare elm
blending crabapple
winding in and out
green spouts under black pant cuff
gnat, a rising star
twisted shadow branch
you can walk any season
while going nowhere
juicy [...]
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Posted in Great Places To Write, Labyrinths, Maps, Photography, Place, Practice, Spirituality, Wake Up, Writing, tagged Minnesota, St Paul, walking the labyrinth on March 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
spring walk, March 26th, 2007, entrance to labyrinth, St. Paul, Minnesota, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
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Posted in Body, Culture, Death, Family, Labyrinths, Life, Maps, Personal, Place, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Spirituality, Structure, tagged meditation, Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet, walking the labyrinth on March 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I walked the labyrinth yesterday. It was 83 degrees in the Twin Cities on a March 26th. Shirts were off, motorcycles tuned, potholes exposed. The temperature threw me. Three weeks ago, we were knee deep in the worst blizzard in 25 years.
I took off my Land’s End quilted moccasins, stripped off my wool socks, rolled [...]
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Posted in Authors, Books, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Labyrinths, Maps, Personal, Place, Practice, Quotes, Spirituality, Structure, Vision, Writers, Writing, tagged Alice Walker, Amazon Women's Bookstore, Chartres Cathedral, Jean Shinoda Bolen, journals, meditation, mentors, The Same River Twice, walking the labyrinth on March 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »
The Labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral, from Alice Walker’s book, “The Same River Twice, Honoring the Difficult”
I walked the labyrinth many times last year as part of my practice. In the year-long writing Intensive the three of us attended in Taos with Natalie Goldberg, we were encouraged to keep and log our practice. Every day – [...]
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