Daniel Steinbock

Breaking open
a new day
without waiting
for instructions

Never again
erring on the side!
from now on
I make my mistakes out front
and in the open

And if doubters doubt
and naysayers say nay
well, let them
too
do what comes natural

She who makes life up as she goes
makes no mistake

As the tree that grows in every direction
reaches the sun

In my short time on Earth I’ve made a handful of original (pseudo)scientific contributions to the world. I’d like to make them public over the next several blog posts.

1. Dirty Dish Dilemma (for now, linking to a radio interview I gave on this topic)
2. True Mirroring
3. Do-Nothing lucid dreaming and R.E.L.
4. Spontaneous yoga
4. Dynamically Distributed Democracy
5. The practice that liberates

On September 5, 2009, I officiated the marriage of two dear friends, Thomas and Sabrina. Here is the invocation I wrote that opened the ceremony.

It is a gift we give to one another,
in these unsettled times,
to gather together under an old tree in Summer,
– as we have before
and as we will again,
in different times and temples than this one –
to author and celebrate the marriage of
Thomas Macario
and
Sabrina Rose.

These gatherings of ours
give occasion to the telling of truths:
where we say aloud what we inwardly know but speak of rarely.
Where we give thanks and say “I Love You” to those who made and raised us.
Where we smile at friends and say: “I have known you a long time.”
Where we say, in our own peculiar ways,
what the bee says to the flower,
the sea to the sea shore,
the tree’s leaves to the Sun’s shine.

And in saying these things,
it somehow reminds us of the passing of our lives.

In hearing what is spoken — here, now –
in the image of two people under an old tree,
we witness the wedding together of all the pairs of things:
hurt and its healing,
gift and its gratitude,
the ends and beginnings of a life.

You know, it sounds quite like two people saying ‘Thank You’ to each other.

All this is said, and all of us are gathered in, to remind you:
Love is.
There was never a time when it wasn’t.
All around you.