Past days have flowed all one into the other, silent with the seamless closeness of family at holiday time. Together could also be to-gather. And now we’re all moving on.
I’ve missed writing here. The words were elsewhere.
I read in instructions for Chinese calligraphy that lines begin in the interior and end in the interior. I know that by feeling, the rightness of it, the beauty. I will try to practice it.
I think of the Zen story in which a disciple asks Master Joshu, « If everything returns to the one, where does the one return to? »
Interior to interior
About the Author: zenscribe
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.
Nice to find yours, too. Thanks, Claudia.
It’s very nice to find your words again here. Thank you, Sensei.