[tabby title="Poem"] The earliest of the Gospel texts -Mark -states definitively that wine (οἶνον),mixed with myrrh (ἐσμυρνισμένον),was permitted or offered (ἐδίδουν) ...in ancient times,by the way,myrrh had many applications,including in anointing kings and high priests. Further,Mark states that while this...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] The matter of 'meeting people where they are'is a bit of a vexed issue in life -we can't do so in the first instancebecause we lack information,so some of us go with extending others the courtesyof treating...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] Ingenious states of mind:ease; simplicity; lightness; and brevity. Ubiquitous margins describing utopia?The remote peripheries. The target?Innate, guileless, innocent and simpleintentions, plans and creativity. You (and I)most rank ‘good’ delicious …the goal, the act, the heart. In the...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] 'Some notes from and about Qici the Sack Monk' Qici (契此和尚),who was also known as 'the Sack Monk' (布袋和尚),is said to have left a note -now recorded in Chinese as follows: 彌勒真彌勒,分身百千億,時時示世人,世人總不識. That might be interpreted as...

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] “Shiva and Shakti,”some say,“are indistinguishable.They are one.They are the universe.Shiva isn’t masculine.Shakti isn’t feminine.At the core of their mutual penetration,the supreme consciousness opens”. Energy, ability, strength, effort, power and capability(शक्ति [śakti])and happiness, welfare, prosperity, bliss and liberation(शिव...