Imaginal Journal
Imagination is Medicine
Save the World
“We save the world by being alive ourselves.”
Last Night as I Was Sleeping by Antonio Machado
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk?
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.
Last night as I slept,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that it was God I had
here inside my heart.
by Antonio Machado
Sacred Rebel
Here is a wonderful example of a sacred rebel, Pancho Ramos Stierle, utilizing principles of non-violence during the Occupy Movement as shared in Parabola Volume 37, No. 1, “Burning World,” Spring 2012.
Alfonsina y el Mar interpreted by Amaia Romero
Whoa. Feeling pulled by a ground swell on this emerging artist Amaia Romero and her set at the Primavera Sound festival. Found myself feeling so moved that this young artist interpreting this song that I was first introduced to in college studying Latin American poet Alfonsina Stroni who tragically took her own life casting herself into the ocean. This song as homage to Alfonsina’s work as well as her mythos continues to pierce me so deeply.
Glass Castle
A powerful drama based on a true life memoir depicting a family's mythos to preserve the spirit despite trauma, alcoholism, and poverty.
This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold