My Best Life, November 2013
when autumn flares out at the last, boisterous and like us longing to stay- how everything lives, shifting from one bright vision to another, forever in these momentary pastures. ~Mary Oliver...
View ArticleLive A Life Of Amazement
When it’s over, I want to say: All my life I was a bride Married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, Taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder If I have made my life...
View ArticleMy Best Life, April 2014: Endings and Beginnings
April…a flash of a month, a month of endings and beginnings, of rain, snow, moving home and moving forward. April left me full of memories, moments flashing back too fast to catch my breath. Even my...
View ArticleWhat Is Prayer?
These months of spring and early summer shared their beauty and their pain, their hope for new beginnings and the sadness of lives ended-some with grace and dignity of a life well-lived, and some with...
View ArticlePay Attention
It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a...
View ArticleBeauty, The Brave, The Exemplary, Blazing Open
This week El Nino backed off, and the sun smiled on us with 70 degree days. Everywhere I went, the violets popped their purple and white heads, the daffodils unfurled into yellow trumpets heralding...
View ArticleThe Lily
The Lily Night after night darkness enters the face of the lily which, lightly, closes its five walls around itself, and its purse of honey, and its fragrance, and is content to stand there in the...
View ArticleWords That Nourish, Friends That Write
I can count on one hand the number of women I trust will always be in my life. They each entered my world at different, crucial, life altering times, and while not one of them lives within walking...
View ArticleAll That Glorious, Temporary Stuff: Poetry By Mary Oliver
Meditation, so I’ve heard, is best accomplished if you entertain a certain strict posture. Frankly, I prefer just to lounge under a tree. So why should I think I could ever be successful? Some days I...
View ArticleIt’s Poetry Month! Writing, Reading, Teaching and Sharing Poetry
True confession: I haven’t always been a poetry lover. When I was younger I collected poems, intrigued by the connection I felt with a complete stranger’s expression of my emotions. I copied poem after...
View ArticleI Don’t Want To Live A Small Life: Poetry by Mary Oliver
I don’t want to live a small life. Open your eyes, open your hands. I have just come from the berry fields, the sun kissing me with its golden mouth all the way (open your hands) and the wind-winged...
View ArticleJoy Is Not Made To Be A Crumb
Joy Is Not Made To Be A Crumb If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are... Read more Joy Is...
View ArticleClearing Out and Making Space For Creativity
I spent the summer clearing out. Clearing In Springtime It started in May, actually, when my classroom began to feel like the walls were closing in. I needed space. Every day after school I would open...
View ArticleGoodbye, Dad
I’ve never been good at saying goodbye. Always, I look to poetry, prose, to the words of those that came before me for such ancient experiences as this. I search nature, beauty that I love... Read more...
View ArticleIlluminate: Finding My Way Gently Into 2021
These mornings are neither dark nor light, clear nor completely obscured, just intriguing enough to keep searching, illuminating into 2021. The post Illuminate: Finding My Way Gently Into 2021 appeared...
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