“All happiness comes from looking to make others happy, all suffering comes from seeking happiness for oneself.”
Two Days of Teaching with the Dalai Lama
by LukeSpartacus •
Travels
Of the Unknowable Causality that Carried me Back to India
by LukeSpartacus •
And I remembered something, of the four weeks I was here in Dharamshala before, I was in teachings, trainings, and intense clearings (pancha karma if you know what that means [are enemas involved? Yes but so much more!]).
I released an Audiobook! Here’s How:
by LukeSpartacus •
This year I published my first audiobook. My 2019 poetry collection “All the Beloved Known Things” is now available on Audible, iBooks, and Amazon. I just released by first audiobook, so for my fellow scribes I offer my roadmap: What I Used to Release my Audiobook I used ACX, which is like KDP for audiobooks…
The Starlight Still Within Us
by LukeSpartacus •
The heart-work is in the hearing. The hearing is in the listening. The listening is in the legend that once upon a time a rocket ship made of words brought us to life and from pathos came ethos and egos and hard work and scattering and scavenging the ditches for ideas that will teach us how to touch the starlight that’s still left in us on this journey back home where it feels like our parents have locked us in a room full of brownies and scorpions.
The Beautiful Life of Marcia Garcia
by LukeSpartacus •
Instead, she told them: “You are all intelligent and gifted. If you want to do something, you can. Nothing is impossible if you work hard and stay away from bad influences and drugs. You look at some in our streets and you see people without homes, without families, and they are using drugs. They have forgotten to believe in their dreams and now they suffer. When you lose your dreams, you lose everything.”
At the Center of All Beauty
by LukeSpartacus •
This world, this life, this uncharted wonder beneath it all, ever beckoning us back to the beauty both beyond and within us all.
Why 2020 Was One of the Best Years of my Life
by LukeSpartacus •
Yesterday I caught up with a friend of twenty years. She asked me how I was doing. “Honestly,” I said, “really amazing, 2020 was one of the best years ever!” “You’re like…THE ONLY ONE I’ve heard say that,” she said, a tone of incredulity underpinning her giggle. She went on to tell me of her…
Poem: The Hallelujah Horizon
by LukeSpartacus •
Heroes, do not dim.
Share your light with us,
we who have lost the sense of place
and hidden in certainties
that lack the love of sinking
into life’s mysterious muddle.
Upon Turning 35: An Open Letter to Younger Men
by LukeSpartacus •
—written with my 18 and 20 year old younger brothers in mind— Dear Brothers, It is not that I am much older than you or believe I have concrete answers to life’s burning questions. Honestly, I can rarely cut jalapeños and remember not to wipe my eyes. But having just clocked into my 35th year,…
That Time I Pooped my Pants in Ireland and Didn’t Tell Anyone About It until Right Now
by LukeSpartacus •
To my jumping wooohooo elation, the panel of experts in the genre of intestinal blockage literature selected my entry “Constipated With Love,” as the winner.
