During my graduate school years several decades ago, I made the acquaintance of a fellow graduate student - actually, he might have been...

Sunrise from the Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic I was reminded of the love of dancing, of just letting loose, by way of a...

This is a phrase that arose this morning as I was participating in a spiritual practice. It arose naturally…out of the blue, you could...

Thirty-one years ago today, I got married. It was a very warm day in upstate New York but thankfully, though we married outside in a...

In this day and age, we are seeing far too many examples of abuse of power in the spiritual world. Of course, one example is too much. ...

I was watching the fireworks over St. Augustine last night standing next to my older son. We were located on a rooftop of a local...

(Artwork chosen because Paul was born on the full moon of May.) I just had a delightful conversation with my younger son, Paul, who is...

we lose ourselves in the outer glimmer and dance we leave the sanctuary of the heart our essential being that nectar of self recognition...

A poem written in 2015 Let Words Fall let words fall like petals soft and fragrant let the young ones receive the benediction of this...

A vast topic…From the queen bee devoting her very existence to the propagation of her young to all manner of species and mammal...

poetry serves all of life from shadowed realms where stones seek refuge in fern and dusk to the nightingale trilling a lonely song from...

Being back in D.C. felt good. I have always enjoyed academia so going back to school was a natural move for me. I moved into a place...

Live from pure awareness. Annie Kiyonaga

a post-rain moment quiet surrounds me in my enraptured magenta white and dusty pink-orchid colored living room during this mid-day...

(Painting by Annie Kiyonaga, May 2019) the life of a woman feet planted on the earth Mother Earth head held high touching the sky...

Story by Joseph Razon (Slightly!) edited and illustrations by Annie Kiyonaga Once upon a time, in the dark depths of the ocean many...

Message espied on a bumper sticker recently…

Years ago, I taught a political science course at a local college, and the main question which emerged during the semester was, “What is...