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2012 larry goodell po box 571 placitas, new mexico larrygood@comcast.net
Just Breath. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Create-A-Hymn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Tough Turkey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Red White and Blue and Rainbow Too .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Cheated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Morning, Day After Thanksgiving, 2001.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 For Thankful Cranks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Gratitude Toot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Happy Dumb Turkey Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Feasts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Heavenly Blessed Earth.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Just Breath
1. Count your blessings become a gratitude freak. Be thankful for everything Left & Right Up Down & Center. Especially for the fact that You are breathing. 2. Especially for the fact that You are breathing in and out and now getting up from this chair & walking step by step out the door with the laundry to, in this Spring-blooming weather, hang the laundry up on the clothesline to dry just like my Mamaw did every Monday morning down in Roswell where I took my first breath.
Grace. Grace says Grace. Thanks for the plants & you & us. You have no face. You certainly are a benefit to the human race as it races towards extinction. Glad we knew you bird trimmings, greens, veggies high powered cooking herbs & spices of the mind. Glad to meet you eat you along our annual way. Thank a saving given in. Thanksgiving in. Thanks giving in. /23Nov95
Create-A-Hymn
The aim is not to blame but to create the same love that created the world volatile powerful sustaining beautiful and fierce beyond vision, gentle and retiring as the womb working to create everything good above us below us behind us everything good created in life parading forth pleasure in the slowly evolving round and dance of the planet the planets blessed ourselves, myself now everything good above me below me behind me around me beside me within me the aim is to aim at the center of myself, no blame creating in rest in strength of heart muscles pumping and brain relaxing into early morning dawning life love mystery of the Unknown reveals itself in purely being, breathing great gratefulness everything sings the sun up okay better than okay alright! Dawning brother, sister father mother partner friend end no end imaginary partner real God mindfulness, full body sings in heart the art of love the gift of grace 4
the beautiful fragrant bower of the personal Higher Power ascends, descends Father Sun Mother Earth Great Spirit gives birth every moment to this surprise of friendship and love, this sun slowly up and brightening hills behind me as I not seeing love more that its there the growing evidence of all the light when I cant see the source nor would I want to or could I in this peace flowing down everything good above me, below me, behind me around me, beside me within me the aim is not to blame but to open to the love that creates the world.
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Tough Turkey
(Thanks to Procrastination) (Dessie GoodellGrandma born July 25, 1889) Tom Turkey totaled. Or maybe he wasnt Tom. Dick Turkey done in. Too old to be good. Now roasted. Maybe Ill make turkey soup tomorrow lots of it. A 22 pound turkey a year & a half old. After gutting 15 pounds. Im telling you, guts make up a lot of us. Joel cut the head off as I held him. Axe sharpened. My little folding Gerber knife sharpened. Water boiling in the big galvanized tub. Dipped him in heavy as he was he floated. Took out feathers, for hours. I have my procrastination to thank for this tough turkey. Putting it off getting someone to help me. Well when Im dying and I havent gotten around to that big task itll be too late. Maybe Ill join the turkey in the sky, or in some deep canyon where his repeated gobble and my self-pitying sighs will amuse the coyotes and fall on deaf ears of the dry river bed. /02
Cheated
God help me please throw the weight of loss off me that form of being cheated that haunts me who cheated us and caused all this fuss & dark worry that we cant even have a birthday & pretend things as normal. Just to be able to enjoy giving without thinking youre indulging someone who doesnt deserve it. Just to be able to sit down at a table and enjoy Thanksgiving or a dinner together, on occasion or anything without this constant worry and feeling were been cheated out of this reality that comes with right living. Just a simple birthday, a dinner together a semblance of family. Who took it from us? Why cant we live? What did we do, wrong?
The flower of light opens where last discovered as trying, ignorantly, I cant find it. Even any sense of its fragrance. So I light a stick of incense and pretend I have its presence like all those who tell me they love this delicate spiritual essence this glow that maintains such power this more than anything this more than a flower. No word is enough. Im permanently lost in pretense. But go on and sit, enjoy the incense. Breathe it in with the air my life depends on.
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Gratitude Toot
If I feel gratitude what is that? Great, greet, grit a release, dizziness, a pleasure tears come to the eyes standing I almost fall over thankful to be in everything at once or just my humble self for once awake, aware, alive, just one, of many, many great are the grateful and true to themselves. Am I one? I work at it other times and greet it when it comes, just a swoosh! Thanks.
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Feasts
Listen to the thanks of a thousand reasons you enter the season, the holiday free zone. Now we can work up a feast & then play, everything at once: is the Solstice the reason? First there is Thanksgiving, giving what you think of, grace around the table. Things could be worse, you jerk, lighten up! Hanukkah is coming with all the candle lights, and Christmas after the Suns shortest day, just enough giving, and New Years to celebrate a happy beginning to a long labored past: what more to suggest but be free with your compliments, strive with the winners and plan a new feast. Rest is appropriate after eats. /27Nov08
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love to all friends & acquaintances online, in line and out of line peace to all larry
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2012 po box 571 placitas, new mexico larrygood@comcast.net