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Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Compassion, Love, Wisdom / November 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The small round Rinpoche at Esalen
was teaching Tibetan compassion

Start from where you are he said
feel the love you feel for one or two
or the people nearest dearest to you

Holding that feeling indiluted
add one more and then one more
til you start to feel the feeling fade
then pull back in til you feel it again

Sit with this today all day
and tomorrow try to add another
and if that works then add another
til every man becomes your brother

White Bluebonnet Blessing

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged First Nations, Hope, Native Americans, Peace, Wisdom / March 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A white buffalo calf is a big deal
and it is said White Buffalo Woman
brought the pipe of peace to the Sioux
Relating that legend Black Elk says...
This they tell,
and whether it happened so or not I do not know;
but if you think about it, you can see that it is true

In years to come they may speak of the spring
when the white bluebonnet
brought goodness back to Texas and the USA

Moisture is Moisture

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Rain, Snow, Wisdom / January 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Moisture is moisture
is the mantra of the dryland farmer

It doesn't matter if it's snow or rain
or if a foot of one
equals about an inch of the other

He is happy enough to sit
by the window and watch it fall

And any kid that complains
they can't go outside and play
will be quick-slapped by the adage

The Tragedy of Tragedy

Audio Recordings, News, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Democracy, Politics, Tyrants, Vote, Voting, Wisdom / October 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If you have not heard sage Hesiod say

How often have whole cities had to pay
for choosing one who can but evil do

You might have to learn that way too

Growing Younger – Greece 2000

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Aging, Humor, Philosophy, Socrates, Wisdom / October 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Standing in front of the statues of the wise
noting how very wise they were
to be born at a ripe old age
and grow younger every year

Socrates for instance
(469-399)
certainly got it right
being born at seventy
and working backwards
to that point of light

Grandmother Georgina

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists, First Nations, Native, Reconcilliation, Tradition, Wisdom / September 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Good Advice

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Country Music, Humor, Wisdom / May 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Whenever anything got broke or lost
Kim's mother would say:
Don't cry over anything that can't cry over you

Which is a good thing to remember
when your life becomes a country song
and your dog and your wife and your truck are gone
Your dog will miss you right away and cry with the coyotes all the night
your wife will miss you later - maybe and cry for all the coulda's that might

buy you're sadly mistaken
if you think that old C-10 Chevy
following the repo truck down the lane
is going to miss you half as much as you miss it

Bowing to Basho

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Anticipation, Patience, Wisdom / March 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Nature by nature
sits by the old pond waiting
will the frog leap soon

Basho – 17th century Japanese haiku master

Learned From My Native Friend

Audio Recordings / tagged First Nations, Learning, Native Americans, Respect, Wisdom / June 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You don’t hunt buffalo nine to five
Greed is death to the tribe
Some stuff without words

Connected Disconnected

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Equanimity, Wisdom / March 10, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Buddha in Austin
still stonely standing
under the bodhi oak

Earbuds in to hear the news

Mudra holding firm
of - even this shall pass

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Nancy Fierstien on Spring Came InMay 12, 2025
You've certainly captured these crazy times with finesse and grace, my Friend!
Nancy Fierstien on Remembering WhenMay 8, 2025
I'm betting "slow motion" was never your style!
Ken Christopher on The Farmer’s DaughterMay 7, 2025
Very nice
pat psooy on Wood River WindingsMay 4, 2025
A very good poem!!!
Tom on Basketball in CanadaApril 18, 2025
Neil, as you may know we live about 15 miles from his former farm. The locals have installed a bronze…

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