Matcha

The making and drinking of matcha comprises a ritual that accompanies me wherever I may be.

Gongfu

 

Mi lugar feliz

donde podría

ser mí misma verdadera. 

Revisiting Proust 10 years later

 

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

-Marcel Proust

Ritual

 

Hago mi ritual de té

cada vez

con nuevos ojos.  

Regresando

Estoy agradecida

que puedo

regresar al aliento

a alguna vez.

I am grateful 

that I can

return to the breath 

at any time.

Forty Years Later (After the Fall of Saigon)

In an idyll away from a home
those memories that have been lain
down in words
rehearsed and repeated
over the years have marked me
tossed waywardly in boats
to eventually find my way Home.

Visiting Merwin

Dew Light

Now in the blessed days of more and less
when the news about time is that each day
there is less of it I know none of that
as I walk out through the early garden
only the day and I are here with no
before or after and the dew looks up
without a number or a present age

-from The Moon Before Morning by W.S. Merwin