Author: buddhadave

It was the usual hot steamy night in South beach. I was sitting in a dark corner of the club watching the door, the rhythmic pulse of music beckoning from the open door of the club. Inside, the air had the scent of coconut and lime, a hint of the ocean breeze teasing the senses…

  tearing myself from rutted routine leaping miles to try out a fantasy. landing in a mine field False starts ,insecurity , reality rears its ugly head. Stuck between love and freedom forced concessions and bad compromise unable to give up . I feel unimportant, old and in the way. a third class citizen homeless…

    Autumn winds blow fresh across my brow. Bringing promises of crisp morning jaunts through fields and hills splashed by natures paint box. Pumpkins glowing orange among the dying vines that nourished them through the summer. The trees dance in the breeze, waving their colorful skirts and petticoats, welcoming the long winters rest that…

The air was thick with tension, a palpable unease that hung in the atmosphere like a dense fog. As I stepped out onto the street, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of dread wash over me. The news had been blaring with reports of rising tensions, of divisions deepening within our society. Everywhere I…

Out damned spot! Out I say! Twilight Approaches Waves of memory wash over me . Abstracts from my life. tears , lost ideals of youth haunt me. Nostalgic visions flying past warming heart and mind. Barely remembered landscapes, warped by time and faulty recollections. Embarrassment for never growing up gives way to stubborn pride for…

It was a cool rainy day outside. Laura wandered from window to window sighing looking bored. “Mom! There’s nothing to do” she whined as she walked into the kitchen. “I have a present for you Laura” said her mom. “It came in the mail last week and I have been saving it for a day…

tortured by years of unobtainable love your sudden reappearance leaves me fearful of not being the one dreamed of for so long. immobilized by the intensity of emotion ripping through my being quaking with anxiety sobbing with joy. I dream to leap the distance that keeps us apart, to embrace you to never let you…

I follow trails of thought through my mind filled with wonder about the final outcome. I can remember yesterday, so in a sense , it is not gone, but set in indelible ink unchangeable. I cannot linger reading previous chapters for long . I must get on with writing new chapters. I once spent precious…

electric dreams fill my being with sparks of spiritual energy. i know not of other planes or places still I dream of elsewhere and elsewhen. Silence envelopes me stars like diamond dust dance lightly my soul is tickled. Blue mist and red dawn draw me to drink their beauty. I must be gone places to go…

We are evolved to have quick automatic responses to danger. We are taught inapproiate emotional responses. We are all drama queens about some things. Learning to be non reactionary, to control our emotional response to externial and internal events is a big key to happiness. There are many paths to inner peace and understanding that…