I Would Rather Be...
Living in a grass-is-greener, anywhere-but-here, mode can particularly unsatisfying.
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Easing the Journey Through Shadow & Light
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- Sep 7, 2023
- 3 min
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.
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- Aug 16, 2023
- 2 min
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.
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- Jun 21, 2023
- 2 min
Arriving, an Animal and an Ark
Three poems: two are about journeys, all three about the convolutions of hope.
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- May 17, 2023
- 3 min
The Ocean of Longing
...the ocean of longing shifts through me, the blessed inner star of navigation moves in the dark sky above...
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- Feb 15, 2023
- 1 min
You Come Too
It has been a day when the memory of a poem--a simple poem, almost a prayer-- elicits gratitude.
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- Sep 7, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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- Aug 24, 2022
- 2 min
Sitting and Knowing?
Spooneristic poems about Runny Babbit by Shel SIlverstein plus a different poem: Slip on through the fountain in the moonlit air...
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- Jul 27, 2022
- 3 min
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
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- Jun 22, 2022
- 4 min
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.
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- Jun 15, 2022
- 3 min
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.
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- May 18, 2022
- 3 min
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.
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- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
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.
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- Apr 20, 2022
- 4 min
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.
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- Apr 6, 2022
- 6 min
The Opus to Be Translated Is Yourself
All that I hoped to say in books, all that I ever hoped to say, is that I love the world. E. B. White
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- Mar 23, 2022
- 4 min
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.
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- Mar 2, 2022
- 3 min
Let the Lynx Come In
The boy is nervous about wild animals that might be stalking around outside. Yet when he hears scratching at the door, he opens it, a bit.
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- Feb 16, 2022
- 1 min
Where You're Bravely Working: Grief & Hope
Two poems about loss & hope--one from a grand river, and one from a small creek in the wilderness.
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- Feb 2, 2022
- 3 min
Trees Might Bloom: On Writing
There are lots of things to be afraid of as a writer--being exposed, ignored, ridiculed. But there’s also elation, even wonder, as I write.
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- Jan 26, 2022
- 5 min
Beloved Small Giant
He touched the lives of millions around the world, faithfully scattering seeds of peace, compassion, mindfulness, non-violence, humor & joy.
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