Heading off to retreat in Portugal.
Thus stillness visits for a week in the absence of words here.
Yet the coming and going is open-ended.
And presence is neither here nor there.
How sweet it is.
A week in retreat
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Enseignante Zen et poète, Sensei Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell est née et a grandi à Minneapolis, aux Etats-Unis. Arrivée en France en 1981 pour étudier la littérature et l’histoire, elle y est restée, s’installant à Paris, où elle élève ses deux enfants et gagne sa vie en tant que journaliste.
The Zen teacher and poet Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell Sensei was born and raised in Minneapolis, but came to France in 1981 to study literature and history and has lived in Paris ever since, raising her two children and making a living as a journalist.
Port; yes how sweet it is.
I hope for your sake that you stay there for a while – in the sunlight of Portugal- and enjoy it.
(Like you said; the going is open ended.)
Stillness is not eager to leave either.