Moon On Water
Moon On Water Full Moon January 25, 2024 moon I saw you see me see you grow all night all day this month this life gathered at the top of the sky then falling again ascendant call. Poem by Qayyum Johnson. Painting by Suiko McCall. Self-forgiveness is Primary Peacework, 2023. Ink on paper, 60×45″.
Our Invisible, Crazy Hearts Moon
Our Invisible, Crazy Hearts Moon New Moon January 11, 2024 Mostly you don’t see the moon in a city So a new moon is a double-blind bind An experiment in lunacy for lunatics Imagine all the pollution, poverty & injustice That you perceive become thin stars While the new moon that you cannot see Swells infinitely […]
Film: Live Your Power
How do other people deal with the challenges in their lives? How have they managed to do something they didn’t dare to do before? Let yourself be touched by the stories of courageous, vulnerable, strong and thoroughly alive people from all over the world. Youtube Playlist with empowering life stories from all over the world About […]
Moon That Loves The World & Everything In It
Moon That Loves The World & Everything In It Full Moon December 26, 2023 Today grows in the morning quiet Into a great big complicated thing. It is a good day to die It is a fine day to be born. Love the human first Or last. Or remain agnostic & start with anything near. Be […]
Hope & Change Moon
Hope & Change Moon New Moon December 12, 2023 O, cosmos you swallow me as if I don’t exist apart O, intimate you monarch butterfly of blazing trillion suns your time is not a candle, a seed or an arrow O, cosmos flowering now in fertile black zero gravity compassion original mother of this mysterium O, […]
Moon of the Iron Age
Moon of the Iron Age Full Moon November 26, 2023 This time I wish for everything Every good thing To suddenly or slowly befall everyone In the right way, at the seeming wrong time Wherever they are, hearing the call Slow drumming of basic good— Good good good as moonrise On this shared sphere of growing blue […]
Moon of the Present Moment
Moon of the Present Moment New Moon November 13, 2023 is nothing ever enough? each of the unsaid feelings dissipate into white flowers at the flesh stalk’s head, dangling moments of a little perception around the hour the wind starts up & clouds go vanishing over western glories for all of them, a eulogy about itching […]
Sky of the Present Moment
Sky of the Present Moment New Paintings by Suiko McCall on view November 27 – December 21, 2023 San Francisco Zen Center 300 Page Street Please join Art Monastery Founder & Abbess Suiko Betsy McCall at her solo painting show! Artist Reception Friday, December 15 7-9pm Sky of the Present Moment is a show about presence, […]
Hosting Empowerment: The Book
In the summer of 2023, at one of the world’s most ecologically responsible printing presses, the three-year European Commission-funded project Hosting Empowerment published a book. I had the honor of illustrating and designing this book, along with my collaborator Boris Goldammer. The idea behind the book is to provide a guide for facilitators who want […]
Song to the Goddess of Awakening
Full Moon Saturday, October 28 In this moment together — alone embodied in this space and light-filled body awaken my appreciation a wish for my life to lived in service of the heartbreak passage by which we aim to put a name on all the world’s beauties as they crest bright and float away. Poem by […]