The air is warm this morning
Unseasonably warm for October
My windows are open
And Kitty is talking about rabbits
In the quiet morning
Beneath the cool blue sky
The sun still below the horizon
As Venus fades quickly in the light
Showing posts with label Monday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monday. Show all posts
Monday, October 5, 2020
Observation - October 5th, 2020, Monday
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.
Monday, November 4, 2019
Observation - November 4th, 2019, Monday
The leaves
on the maple have yellowed and fallen
They blanket
the yard outside my window
The day is
gray and sodden
There were
snowflakes falling in dark of the morning
Millions of
fragile crystal falling to the ground
All of their
uniqueness, becoming nothing at all
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.
Monday, March 4, 2019
Observation - March 4th, 2019, Monday
The coffee
pot is gurgling
The news is playing
clips
The
president making a fool of himself
Cursing on
TV, lying
The five o’clock
bus passes by
It is cold
outside, negative 10
My lady is
preparing to leave for work
Kitty is
following her around
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.
Monday, February 4, 2019
Observation - February 4th, 2019, Monday
There is a
knocking sound coming from the refrigerator
I listen to
the heavy breathing of my cat
Curled up
behind me on the couch
Resting on
her white blanket
Maybe she
knows I am writing about her
She lifts
her head up and squints
Maybe it is
the noise coming from the kitchen
The knocking
noises mimic the scurrying of mice
Random,
faint, clicks and scratches
Like a voice
calling to kitty
Get up and
play.
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.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Observation - December 3rd, 2018, Monday
Observation
The world
outside my window is covered in ice and snow
We are plunging
into winter, and it is cold
I woke up parched,
with the radiators drying out the house
Running hot
all day, non-stop
Kitty is curled
up in a ball on the couch
She slept under
my arm all night
She is
complaining about the snowy-world
With all the
rabbits and the squirrels having gone to rest
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.
Monday, September 3, 2018
Observation - September 3rd, 2018, Monday
Observation
I listen to
a car roll by outside my open window
The sound of
traffic is low, I have not noticed any busses
There is a
beeping like an alarm going off at the nursing home across the street
Or of a van
backing up, but it has been going off for hours
It is Labor Day
today and the city is still sleeping
Summer is
coming to an end
It promises
to be warm today, not hot, the breeze is cool and dry
Kitty is
running from window to window, chortling in her brisk meow
There is
something happening outside
A born
squirrel, or a chip monk in the tree
They vanish,
and she grows quiet
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.
Monday, October 2, 2017
Observation - October 2nd, 2017, Monday
Observation
There was lightning, and the bright crack of thunder.
At 2:00 am, my cat came to sleep under arm,
Rain was fall hard against the house, against my windows.
Thunder rolling across the city, otherwise dark and quiet.
The news was of a shooting in Las Vegas.
A man with an automatic rifle shooting from an elevated
position in to a crowd.
Twenty or more people killed, one hundred more injured.
The shooter himself had been found and killed by the police.
The Sheriff is not giving details.
America is on fire, and breaking apart at the margins.
Storms pound our coasts, and millions of people are flooded;
Without homes, without power, without medicine, without
clean water.
The occupant of the oval office is playing golf, and
whining.
America is on fire.
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.
Monday, January 2, 2017
Observation - January 2nd, 2017, Monday
Observation
It is 4:00 pm, and the rain is freezing.
The rain covers everything in a thickening layer of ice, a slurry
of slush and snow.
It was warm today, but the temperature is falling, dropping
below zero.
There are people outside, they have no shelter.
Some will not make it through the night.
I am warm in my house.
My cat does not give a care for the world, except to see through
the window a bird, a rabbit, or a squirrel.
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.
Monday, August 1, 2016
Observation - August 1st, 2016, Monday
Observation
It is 4:00 am and dark outside.
The streets are quiet.
My cat is sleeping nearby on her blanket, atop the book
case. My gal, in the bed behind the closed door.
It is warm. The air is heavy in the house.
I am listening to the news, the voices are muffled over the low
pitched noise of the humming fan, on the end table by my desk.
The coffee maker beeps, beeps, beeps…it is telling me that
the warming plate below the pot is about to switch off.
I do not care for the sound of its alarms.
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.
Monday, February 1, 2016
February 1st, 2016, Monday
It is dark outside, and I am thinking.
The grain of wood beneath the palms of my hands is
comforting. They rest on the edge of my desk as my fingers are arched upward
and hover the keys of the key board, fingertips intermittently striking
downward as I compose those thoughts.
I am writing.
I am writing about a moment in time.
It is morning, 5:45.
I have been awake for hours.
It is dark outside.
I sweetened my coffee with brown sugar.
I am preparing to leave for work, not actually preparing,
but mentally. Soon I will get up from this chair, get dressed and go, but that
is not this moment.
In this moment I am thinking.
Awake, and the world is turning on its axis…as usual.
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.
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