Advice to Beginners

Begin. Keep beginning. Nibble on everything. Take a hike. Teach yourself to whistle. Lie. The older you get the more they'll want your stories. Make them up. Talk to stones. Short-out electric fences.  Swim with the sea turtle into the moon. Learn how to die. Eat moonshine pie. Drink wild geranium tea. Run naked in the rain. Everything that happens will happen and none of us will be safe from it. Pull up anchors. Sit close to the god of night. Lie still in a stream and breathe water. Climb to the top of the highest tree until you come to the branch where the blue heron sleeps. Eat poems for breakfast. Wear them on your forehead. Lick mountain's bare shoulder. Measure the color of days around your mother's death. Put your hands over your face and listen to what they tell you.  A good idea can never drop into a closed mind.  There is no future if you keep putting your past in front of you.



 Some doors, once opened, can never be fully closed again. Take care to only open doors you are willing to pass through.



 There is no place I can GO and be completely alone Im always there.



 If you think the world is an awful place, you will notice and focus on the thorns in a bunch of beautiful roses.