Letting Go

The sweet smell of freedom
the chorus
of unrehearsed melody
Today,
I had a day “off”
I sifted through “old” writings
I sifted through “old” drawings
and
I threw them out
I feel lighter.

Tranquility

She…

Namaste

I want to tell you
how the sun looks
against the trees
tonight
I actually
love you
my loyal readers
so much
i ran outside
but picked the camera
without a card
I wanted
you to see
what I see
the horizon
of the end
of today
against tomorrow
and
I wanted
to get that for you
a glimpse
because that is often
all it is
namaste
my friends
may you brighten
the moments
of those
you walk
across

Life Unfolded

Do you ever wonder,
why you are here?
In blogland?
Is that even a word, blogland?
I sit in the spaces,
of the music tonight,
Sarah McLaughlin playing,
I could not find the other cds I wanted to hear,
it does not make her unworthy,
but perhaps,
timely.
Did I tell you the story?
Once upon a time,
there was a little girl,
she was too big,
yet too small,
she [...]

Don’t criticize yourself

Don’t criticize yourself
there may already
be
a long line
of people
behind you
unable themselves
to look within the mirror

Is this what we are saying?

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Namaste my friends.

We live within a world of dimensions.

The dimensions allow us to put our heads down at night,

on a seemlessly innocent pillow,

as children,

our soul kin,

have no rest.

Yes to focusing on what we can do to help,

not losing track,

getting overwhelmed by the
nature of this global mess.

But yes,
to remembering,

when I go [...]

The Dandelion

I turned my head
And You were gone
 
I hear sounds around the realm of me
I don’t know what they are
What You are doing
 
Yet
I claim
To know You
Better than anyone
But I can’t feel

What would happen
If we surrendered
To the world around us

If we hung our [...]

The Valley is Mine

The Lord God
is beautiful
He lives within
the valley of my days
He stands
watches
and wrings His hands
as I
set the water to warm
fingers crossed
and stuff
the sink
with a handtowel
as the stopper
stopped long ago
as I take one of ten
of a pack
worn
and sink them into the water
and two of four
of a pack
and sink them
too
and
rub
the Dove
I wish organic
soap
beneath the trickle
and say
how wonderful
how divine
I [...]

Sharing of Blessings

So, guess what?
I have been blessed.
I am (in part) a litigation attorney.
Today, I need to work, despite my preference to go out and place bread and apples among the trees, my offering to nature on Good Friday.
So be it, I will find time later.
In the midst of working, I need a favor, some documents e-mailed. [...]

Dispatches from the Edge

I’m reading now Anderson Cooper’s, Dispatches from the Edge, A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival.
I find it surprisingly self-effacing.  I want to share with you a short piece therein that spoke to me (pp. 103-104):
“Here they treat the worst cases first.  That’s what TV wants as well.  The illest, the greatest in need.  It’s [...]