Meet My Friends

Meet Meg Coyle Irsay

My friend Margaret Coyle Irsay sent me this poem. It is from her new book, "Messages to Me: Words Collected on the Road to Silence," which is available through her web site at One Body Incorporated. Meg has an otherworldly quality about her. She moves with grace and beauty. I wonder if Meg is here by accident. I wonder if some sort of mistake was made. She belongs in a world where only gentle and good-hearted people live. But I am glad she is here.

Appetite

I will swallow all the pain
all the joy of this world
the whole strange mix.
I will bite
chew
swallow
and digest it all
sending Love into the bloodstream
of the One Body.

Look at the plants that chew the rocks
and release the same minerals into my body
when they break against my teeth.
I too am food for life.
I desire to be broken
to be chewed
to be swallowed and transformed
into the bones
and flesh
and blood of the Truth.

Look at me.
Smell me.
Gaze until your mouth waters.
Let your appetite build
and savor the empty space in your belly.
Move from your hunger.
Come and take a bite.
You are not stealing.
You have been invited to this table.
Fill your plate.
Let me feed your heart with my heart.

Meet Amit Goswami

I have two friends who live a few miles inland from Yachats on the Oregon Coast.  They are humble, and I will not say much about them, not even their names for now.  And this is what they would want me to do.  But what I will say is that they are making a movie that could, in their words, "change the world."  Perhaps my friends are not so humble.  Or perhaps they have met a truly insightful man, a physicist, named Amit Goswami.  And perhaps this man does have something to say, something that could indeed change the world.  Decide for yourself by visiting the Quantum Activist and watching the trailer

And by the way, my humble friends, do you remember saying I could be in the movie?  Hmmm?   You do remember that, don't you.  Well, perish the thought that I would ever bring up this topic, not normally, at least.  No, I am much too humble for that, and spiritual too.  However, it just popped into my mind.  And who am I to resist these quantum pops?

Meet Jane Puckey

That I know an artist is not unusual. Portland abounds in incredible artists. But that this artist feels like my little sister, that I have never seen her, and that she lives in New Zealand does feel a little unusual.

Jane Puckey is my dear friend, and if ever I am an artist in some sort of parallel universe, I want to paint as she does, with an eye for whimsical detail and a sense of beauty that lifts my heart. I will let her art speak for her. The "Colour of Paua" is only one of many paintings displayed on Jane's new website, which makes the Pacific no wider than a keystroke.

For those of you who do not speak the native language of New Zealand, which is Kiwi, colour is color in America, and is pronounced, "Yesterday I went downtown and had a strawberry milkshake." I might have made some of that up.