ByGiora Carmi
The door swings open The man is trying to stand But it is all going to fall on him now Will something good happen in the end? He had built a structure And it is like a cartoon now The man is lying on his stomach The telescope collapses on him Many people collapse on…
ByGiora Carmi
Creating Mountains and rivers and sky Means Daring to be me. I am nothing but a sage sitting And these days Here I am learning to take space with colors To draw lines and fill them up With tints of ancient roads Eternal Every day. Every little bit of self knowing leads to a…
ByGiora Carmi
The soft lines of ploughed earth End at the foot of the hills Where the flow of green Also stops Red in the sky warns you That it can turn black And even here At the beginning of your trip Where you can touch the earth With bare feet There is a branch across…
ByCatherine Green
It has been a very challenging and emotional month. Not only did we enter 2018 with the usual societal fanfare of optimism, high hopes and big dreams, but in my family, we were coping with bereavement whilst preparing for a seventh birthday. Oh, and the date is looming for my father-in-law to return home following…
ByGiora Carmi
The way the roots develop Is by inclusion of the earth That is around them The earth drinks the thoughts of the sky And if you look at How the earth is speaking body language You’ll see That the intensity of your pain Is gone Your fields are organized and loved Your heart is green….
ByGiora Carmi
The little kid Is walking an ancient path The rocks become brittle And turn into sand The little hill Loves to feel his feet on its back The little hill and he Are good, loving, friends Sometimes it rains And memories of old friend river Turn to memories of old friend mud But he walks…
ByGiora Carmi
1. The Green 2. The Habits and the Flow 3. The Human Condition But he is overwhelmed and afloat The river flows rigorously by him And everywhere else He remembers the river from a dream The browns are curious, supportive and showing the way Just as the lines of his drawings are And…
ByGiora Carmi
From here down it is earth But earth does not exist From here up it is heaven But heaven does not exist So what does? The immediate experience here now And what does it say? The light has given birth To the soft flesh The soft flesh has separated And parts play with parts Imagining…
ByGiora Carmi
In this upside down world Where shame is king And the beauty of the evening moon Breaks your heart Isn’t it natural That we choose to make art? There is a mountain range up in the sky And there is a mountain range down We are just waiting for the bird To sit on a…
ByGiora Carmi
This is what we can do and this is what we are here for as therapists or healers or whatever. We only have to assist everything that comes from inside of us in going its way out. It will go if we let it go. It is all so simple. So here is what I…
ByGiora Carmi
The night was torturous. The pain, which used to be concentrated in one place, spread to bigger areas and to both feet. I don’t know how to describe it so that you will be able to really have a sense of what it is. It is a big experience. Waves after waves of tremendous energy…
ByGiora Carmi
I came to my desk at around 5AM again. I made the drawing that you see here. I wrote what parts of the drawing conveyed to me. I scrambled the sentences and rewrote them in a new order. I read. It did not make much sense to me, so I left it on the desk,…