Breathing is a Bit Bland so What is there to Do When Things Feel…Just Wrong
breathing hurts,
it makes you expand,
it opens you in a way that you are afraid is more painful than what you already experienced.
In Search of Belief
There is a tenderness just there, just under my bones, in the place of heart and meaning, layered with pain, memories, and tears. Can you tell? There is a yearning for understanding. For deep understanding. I want to believe in a god, In The God, in any god. I don’t. I […]
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Praying by Mary Oliver
a silence in which
another voice may speak.
Prompts: There was once a…
I was given the prompt “There was once a…” and it prompted this while I was walking my dog, Henry. And, I could not get the lyrics out of my head. I found them so sweet and comforting so I wanted to share. The link is to a YouTube of the song. The Beatles […]
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Other People’s Children
How do you teach them compassion and loving without a hug? But with a smile on their lips? With love in their eyes?
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Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times ©2001, 2016, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D.,
Do Not Lose Heart. We Were Made for These Times. Mis estimados queridos, My Esteemed Ones: I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world right now. It is true, one has to have strong cojones and ovarios to withstand […]
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Things Forgotten
The sting bleeds out from the open wound and spreads through my chest into my heart,
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