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9:39

dandelion stems cracked open in the slow breeze are my calendar

Published in Spectrum Literary Journal December 2019 Vol. 62

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Summer Worship Service – July 12, 2020

I led today’s summer worship service at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading. In it, I offered a series of reflections on my brush with death in 2019. my recovery, and the insights I gained about healing.

My favorite part is the recessional music performed by Roald Wilson at the end. It’s worth waiting for.

July 12, 2020

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Stella’s Snows – A One Minute Meditation

Stella’s Snows

Feeling the sound of silence

Gives me a sense of real listening.

urging me to ask the question:

what is the sound of nothing?

Jay, Vermont

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Agassiz Basin – A Two Minute Meditation

Agassiz Basin

Chasing the sunset on route 112

into the quiet on the frost-heaved roads

of February’s snow covered

White Mountains

Agassiz Basin, Woodstock, NH

The Waterfall Series - A significant part of the minute meditation series are these waterfall videos I've been taking for many years now. Most of the falls are in my native New England.

If you're a waterfall chaser here, I highly recommend the New England Waterfalls Guidebook. It's the best way to locate, select, and get to the falls.

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Quilts

Sewn from what’s on hand, Scraps of love, and comfort, and longing.

Each square tethered to the next Like family at the table.

Threaded with tea and troubles. Steeped in unspoken sorrows and sequestered joys.

These disembodied fabric versions of ourselves, Linger over the dreams of our daughters and sons

In forms and memories we might not always abide.

Published in Gravitas Dec 2019

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Forty-eight miles per second every million lightyears

My memory and I walked our childhood backyard. Often enough, we’ve looked over its green clover with empty sidelong glances. Sometimes we’d climb the great pine long fallen, or admire the flowers of sharon and irises whose dust was swept down river in summers, until the swamp took over.

This time we set feet firmly, pocketed hands and lifted chin. Meditating in the space between my father and us. Leaving the hydrangeas and nightshade behind, the universe – on the wave of a singularity – expanded, but this sloping pitch to the river somehow looks smaller.

It must be true that only the spaces between are growing.

Published in Levee Magazine November 2018

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Washing Away – A Two Minute Meditation

With the rhythm of your breath

Let the rippling of the water gently wash away

what needs to be let go of.

Washing Away

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Tartia-Engel Falls – A Two Minute Meditation

It’s hard to imagine winter as a season of bounty. I visited Tartia-Engel Falls for the first time in the summer of 2016.  Because of the drought, there was no evidence of water having flowed there except the bridge. In February 2017, while visiting my parents in Manchester, I stopped back to have a second look. This is what I found.

Tartia-Engel Falls, East Hampton, CT

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Quechee Dam – A One Minute Meditation

Quechee Dam

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Patience – A Two Minute Meditation

Patience, It will come. It has always been coming. It has always been here.

Patience

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Chapman Falls – A Two Minute Meditation

Chapman Falls – East Haddam, CT

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Lilies on Sudden Pond – A One Minute Meditation

A peek on to a small gathering of lilies

Lilies on Sudden Pond, Harold Parker State Park

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Minute Meditations is an ongoing series of short videos, poems, and commentary intended as a meditation.  Offered as an opportunity to step back from your cyber routine and settle into a more natural rhythm, if only for a minute.

Dialectic Two Step, Modern Koans, Verse Us, Say What?, and Minute Meditations all copyright Andrew Furst

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These videos are produced for those of us who spend an inordinately large amount of time in the cyber-world.  They are not a substitute for unplugging from your devices and taking a stroll near trees, water, or a patch of unkempt grass.  Getting out into the world – touching, smelling, hearing, and seeing nature is the best way to reconnect with our prime purpose.  

What is our prime purpose? We are feeling and sensing machines.  We are the universe looking back on itself. We are witness to the wonders and dangers of living in this corner of the cosmos.  We are the seekers looking for connection a little further beyond yesterday’s borders and boundaries.

But sitting and staring at the screen robs us of the sustenance that we rely upon for wonder and sanity.  These videos are an opportunity to bring the sensations of nature to you, while you’re in the cyber-world. Its an opportunity to relax your gaze, resettle your posture,  and regain some depth in your breath.  Listen and watch the video and allow your self to open up and recharge.

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Solstice Bonfire – A Two Minute Meditation

A nice crisp December evening in 2016 next to the solstice bonfire.

Solstice Bonfire, Dover-Foxcroft, MA

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Minute Meditations is an ongoing series of short videos, poems, and commentary intended as a meditation.  Offered as an opportunity to step back from your cyber routine and settle into a more natural rhythm, if only for a minute.

Dialectic Two Step, Modern Koans, Verse Us, Say What?, and Minute Meditations all copyright Andrew Furst

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Join me for a little peace through reflection, art, video, sound, and poetry

These videos are produced for those of us who spend an inordinately large amount of time in the cyber-world.  They are not a substitute for unplugging from your devices and taking a stroll near trees, water, or a patch of unkempt grass.  Getting out into the world – touching, smelling, hearing, and seeing nature is the best way to reconnect with our prime purpose.  

What is our prime purpose? We are feeling and sensing machines.  We are the universe looking back on itself. We are witness to the wonders and dangers of living in this corner of the cosmos.  We are the seekers looking for connection a little further beyond yesterday’s borders and boundaries.

But sitting and staring at the screen robs us of the sustenance that we rely upon for wonder and sanity.  These videos are an opportunity to bring the sensations of nature to you, while you’re in the cyber-world. Its an opportunity to relax your gaze, resettle your posture,  and regain some depth in your breath.  Listen and watch the video and allow your self to open up and recharge.

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Dunham Brook – A Two Minute Meditation

Just let the sound settle you down.

Dunham Brook, Dover-Foxcroft, MA

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Minute Meditations is an ongoing series of short videos, poems, and commentary intended as a meditation.  Offered as an opportunity to step back from your cyber routine and settle into a more natural rhythm, if only for a minute.

Dialectic Two Step, Modern Koans, Verse Us, Say What?, and Minute Meditations all copyright Andrew Furst

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Join me for a little peace through reflection, art, video, sound, and poetry

These videos are produced for those of us who spend an inordinately large amount of time in the cyber-world.  They are not a substitute for unplugging from your devices and taking a stroll near trees, water, or a patch of unkempt grass.  Getting out into the world – touching, smelling, hearing, and seeing nature is the best way to reconnect with our prime purpose.  

What is our prime purpose? We are feeling and sensing machines.  We are the universe looking back on itself. We are witness to the wonders and dangers of living in this corner of the cosmos.  We are the seekers looking for connection a little further beyond yesterday’s borders and boundaries.

But sitting and staring at the screen robs us of the sustenance that we rely upon for wonder and sanity.  These videos are an opportunity to bring the sensations of nature to you, while you’re in the cyber-world. Its an opportunity to relax your gaze, resettle your posture,  and regain some depth in your breath.  Listen and watch the video and allow your self to open up and recharge.

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Shivers – A Minute Meditation on Winter

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Punch (Shivers)

December has no less to tell were we only to listen

over the clamor of skates and the crack and punch of winter plows.

She etches secrets onto leaky panes, burnt cheeks, And shivering hearts.

She’s not afraid to bite.

Maudslay State Park, Newburyport, MA

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Dialectic Two Step, Modern Koans, Verse Us, Say What?, and Minute Meditations all copyright Andrew Furst

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Join me for a little peace through reflection, art, video, sound, and poetry

These videos are produced for those of us who spend an inordinately large amount of time in the cyber-world.  They are not a substitute for unplugging from your devices and taking a stroll near trees, water, or a patch of unkempt grass.  Getting out into the world – touching, smelling, hearing, and seeing nature is the best way to reconnect with our prime purpose.  

What is our prime purpose? We are feeling and sensing machines.  We are the universe looking back on itself. We are witness to the wonders and dangers of living in this corner of the cosmos.  We are the seekers looking for connection a little further beyond yesterday’s borders and boundaries.

But sitting and staring at the screen robs us of the sustenance that we rely upon for wonder and sanity.  These videos are an opportunity to bring the sensations of nature to you, while you’re in the cyber-world. Its an opportunity to relax your gaze, resettle your posture,  and regain some depth in your breath.  Listen and watch the video and allow your self to open up and recharge.

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July 4th at Good Harbor – A Two Minute Meditation

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  All you need as guidance through this meditation are the words “A July vacation evening on the beach”. The video was shot on the evening of July 4th at Good Harbor beach in Gloucester, MA.

Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester, MA

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Minute Meditations is an ongoing series of short videos, poems, and commentary intended as a meditation.  Offered as an opportunity to step back from your cyber routine and settle into a more natural rhythm, if only for a minute.

Dialectic Two Step, Modern Koans, Verse Us, Say What?, and Minute Meditations all copyright Andrew Furst

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Join me for a little peace through reflection, art, video, sound, and poetry

These videos are produced for those of us who spend an inordinately large amount of time in the cyber-world.  They are not a substitute for unplugging from your devices and taking a stroll near trees, water, or a patch of unkempt grass.  Getting out into the world – touching, smelling, hearing, and seeing nature is the best way to reconnect with our prime purpose.  

What is our prime purpose? We are feeling and sensing machines.  We are the universe looking back on itself. We are witness to the wonders and dangers of living in this corner of the cosmos.  We are the seekers looking for connection a little further beyond yesterday’s borders and boundaries.

But sitting and staring at the screen robs us of the sustenance that we rely upon for wonder and sanity.  These videos are an opportunity to bring the sensations of nature to you, while you’re in the cyber-world. Its an opportunity to relax your gaze, resettle your posture,  and regain some depth in your breath.  Listen and watch the video and allow your self to open up and recharge.

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Hike on Delano Pond – A Two Minute Meditation

Highlights from an April hike on Delano Pond in Harold Parker State Park.

A Hike on Delano Pond in Harold Parker State Park

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Dialectic Two Step, Modern Koans, Verse Us, Say What?, and Minute Meditations all copyright Andrew Furst

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Join me for a little peace through reflection, art, video, sound, and poetry

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What is our prime purpose? We are feeling and sensing machines.  We are the universe looking back on itself. We are witness to the wonders and dangers of living in this corner of the cosmos.  We are the seekers looking for connection a little further beyond yesterday’s borders and boundaries.

But sitting and staring at the screen robs us of the sustenance that we rely upon for wonder and sanity.  These videos are an opportunity to bring the sensations of nature to you, while you’re in the cyber-world. Its an opportunity to relax your gaze, resettle your posture,  and regain some depth in your breath.  Listen and watch the video and allow your self to open up and recharge.

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