Observation
It is morning. Dark in Autumn.
The house is stirring.
I hear the creaking of footsteps on the floor boards above
me.
The news anchors chattering on the T.V.
There is one week to go before the election, a new
president. There is fear, and uncertainty in the country.
She and I are talking about our changing lives.
She talks just as much to me, as to the cat, sitting behind
me on the blanket on the chair.
Outside, the maples have dropped their leaves, a bright
yellow carpet laid over the yard.
Today the sun is promised.
Siddhartha Ulysses Gateaux, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 1st, 1969) to French/American parents. A lifelong resident of South Minneapolis, Historian, Philosopher and Theologian and Poet, educated in the Benedictine tradition, master of Buddhism in the Zen-Sufi tradition, Buddha at Large, Co-Founder of the Zen Syndicate Intergalactic, Neighborhood Buddha and the People's History Project, teaching history of religion and providing spiritual direction.