I think it’s great that you are starting a site dealing with various aspects of healthy aging. What a great, interesting, and timely (for us baby boomers) topic! I hope you will let me know how to find it.

This site will be on hiatus, or really retirement, until it is permanently retired when the yearly fee runs out next September. Unfortunately WordPress was just not a friendly format for posting poetry.

It is possible we will start up another Dharma Road on another blog site at some point — a site that would be more poetry friendly. Not sure though. Time will tell.

But, seriously looking forward to visiting your site! Let us know when it happens!
with metta,
♥ Gayle

Love your site, and particularly the poem you wrote for your father.
At the moment I’m beginning to create a site around various aspects of healthy aging. Would it be ok for me to post your poem (with acknowledgements) for the support and pleasure of a trickle of others who might be dealing with grief and also for those poetry lovers who might now have more time to indulge this passion?

Many thanks
Wendy

Thank you so much for writing us with your idea. I like it very much. For right now, however, Thanissara and I have just been talking about closing down Dharma Road. Perhaps for repairs, or re-structuring, not really sure. The biggest problem has been that Word Press, which hosts this blog, has a serious problem with re-formatting all the poems we have tried to post — changing the font, the size and style, as well as the line breaks, etc. It’s a bit of a nightmare for poetry, as all of those aspects are important to the totality of the poem.

It just seems that inadvertently I picked the wrong spot to build “Dharma Road” on. It’s simply not sympathetic to poetry.
So, I am about to post a brief letter from me and Thanissara explaining all this. We won’t shut down immediately, so we can hear what people’s responses and suggestions are.

We’ve loved seeing people’s poems and hearing people’s comments. Perhaps we can figure out another place/way to begin again. You know, something like blogger’s beginner’s mind or beginning blogger’s mind. But for now. Word Press is clearly not our right location.

So, we’ll be shutting down soon, re-grouping, and seeing what the next step is.

With so much metta,
Gayle

Thank you for creating this space for dharma poets to connect with one another. I read your call for suggestions for the development of the website so, here goes.

It would be interesting to read interviews of other dharma poets, sanga teachers, who love poetry & writing. It would be interesting to read how they’d answer, “what does writing do” “how does it relate to right speech”

Metta,
Unju

I try to control the jones for bacon — and ice cream. And when I come across a wayward insect here where I live, I get a piece of cardboard to shepherd it outside. Well, except centipedes.

Alas, my loving kindness doesn’t seem to extend to professional football players. I watch the games, have a favorite, and even in face of indisputable evidence on brain trauma from endlessly repeated minor collisions, I jump up and cheer a well-executed play — on the part of my team — or groan when the other team does something spectacular. Pro football. Bacon. Life is full of dilemmas.
JGR