You are Breaking New Ground
As I walked, I glanced to the empty lot. Dirt and rocks, grass and weeds. I became alert to the lyrics playing in my headphones, “in the soil I now surrender, you are breaking new ground” Then...
View ArticleUsing Our Sense(s)
As I sat outside, feeling the warm sun on my skin, I thought of how this feeling has always made me feel so good, so grounded in the time and space I was in. I then reflected on other constants in my...
View ArticleThis is Sabbath Rest
It’s early … faint with infrequent songs from the birds. The sun, though still hidden behind a structure, providing shadowy light. Dampness … on the chairs, the table, the leaves of the plants and...
View ArticleShhhh!
When one thinks of creative expressionists one does not think of ritual or routine. Impulsivity, openness, flexibility … those are more closely associated descriptors of creatives. Yet, anyone doing...
View ArticleWaiting for Rain
Nine weeks … That’s how long we have been waiting. Nine weeks, one heat dome (who knew there was such a thing?), one heat wave, forest fires, evacuations, tinder dry conditions, crops, plants, trees...
View ArticleThe Scent of Love
“… I carried to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had let soften a bit of madeleine. But at the very instant when the mouthful of tea mixed with cake crumbs touched my palate, I quivered,...
View ArticleWhen I Stand In Awesome Wonder
When answers are not provided. When confusion swirls around us. When hurts are deep. When the world seems to be going, as my grandmother would say, to hell in a hand basket. When life is hard. It is...
View ArticleEarly in the Morning
What a morning! Each glance out the window rewarded my eyes with a spectacular, changing sunrise. Later, local friends on social media posted their viewpoints of that same glorious start to the day....
View ArticleThe Christmas Connection of Eve and Mary
I wrote this post a few years back and it is probably one of my own favorite posts. I, personally, come back to it at least once a year. It is mainly because the image (I have yet to find who to...
View ArticleThe Darkness Has a Beauty
The night is lit by the stars and moon and my how they put on a stellar show sometimes. The night sky is not static, it changes with the days and seasons providing an original performance every....
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