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I Would Rather Be...
Living in a grass-is-greener, anywhere-but-here, mode can particularly unsatisfying.
Sep 27, 20232 min read
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Practicing Ease: The Great Heart of a Whale
When a blue whale dives deep their heart slows way, way down: it is a whole......different......mode......of......being.
Sep 7, 20233 min read
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May I Suggest? May I Suggest to You?
Here's a current favorite song--poignant, full of hope, with flowing rhymes and a simple, powerful message.
Aug 16, 20232 min read
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Arriving, an Animal and an Ark
Three poems: two are about journeys, all three about the convolutions of hope.
Jun 21, 20232 min read
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The Ocean of Longing
...the ocean of longing shifts through me, the blessed inner star of navigation moves in the dark sky above...
May 17, 20233 min read
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You Come Too
It has been a day when the memory of a poem--a simple poem, almost a prayer-- elicits gratitude.
Feb 15, 20231 min read
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The Rite of Writing
It seats me right in the middle of this insane and lovely life...
Dec 14, 20223 min read
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The Remarkable Place Where Humans (Maybe) Reside But Mostly We Don't Want to Know...Or Do We?
We are suspended between source and resource, comfort and glory...
Sep 7, 20221 min read
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Sitting and Knowing?
Spooneristic poems about Runny Babbit by Shel SIlverstein plus a different poem: Slip on through the fountain in the moonlit air...
Aug 24, 20222 min read
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That Little Beast
Words can fly like birds but when you try to catch them, they slither around like fish. Poems by Mary Oliver, David Whyte and a novice poet
Jul 27, 20223 min read
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Indra's Web
An infinite, cosmic web of interconnection, where every juncture of the threads is a jewel.
Jul 13, 20223 min read
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Like Coming Home: Writing a Song
And when it's all done, it feels like such a miracle, like birthing a child. It's so hard to believe I had a major part in creating it.
Jun 22, 20224 min read
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Deep Calls to Deep
My 1st song in 30 years rises behind my eyes, begging to come out. I'm trying to sing the stars, thirsting to sing the stars.
Jun 15, 20223 min read
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Freedom From a Root-Bound Mind--and Oh Dear God...Again!
In the aftermath, writing about gratitude and mindfulness seems kind of callous, even frivolous. Or perhaps naive. But it is not.
May 25, 20223 min read
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Oh! Buffalo
Perhaps I can truly hear the small things that I, personally, can do to help shift the balance from fear and hatred to love.
May 18, 20223 min read
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It's About Us
Loosen, fingers, loosen your death grip on this very day. Open to the atmosphere of open, drink in large draughts of clear.
May 4, 20224 min read
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The Thing with Feathers
After all these years I'm still amazed when those minuscule seeds grow into plants hundreds of times bigger than their infant selves.
Apr 20, 20224 min read
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Very Well Right Where You Are
This is a bit odd, I thought...Of course, you can pick my experience to pieces logically if you want to. I'm choosing to take it as a gift.
Mar 23, 20224 min read
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That's How the Light Gets In: The Artist as Struggling Hero
In the artist's journey these inner fears often *are* the Threshold Guardians: I'm not a good enough. This is stupid. Nobody will like it.
Mar 16, 20224 min read
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when the world is mud-luscious
Puddle-wonderful: the unbuttoned delight--and the wistfulness--of early spring, in two poems and some photos.
Mar 9, 20222 min read
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