Praying by Mary Oliver
a silence in which
another voice may speak.
Category: Courage
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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Things Forgotten
The sting bleeds out from the open wound and spreads through my chest into my heart,
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Trusting, in Layers
Her work was to trust, and she studied and thought and studied more in trying to make trust just something she did. Her trust had grown in a way she had not anticipated.
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How Do I Live?
We make up ideas about where we go when we die and typically think it will be much better or much worse than life here on earth. I think we just die.
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Boomerangs and Geraniums, A Retrospective: A Jumble of an Ode to a Divorce
like a boomerang spun out into the sky, with unbalanced aerodynamic force, winds its way back to hit the very place it was thrown from, hitting us smack in our righteousness.
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I Am Not Who I Think I Am… I Am Not Who You Think I Am
my partner is my dog and I live in a room in a house with a family I met through an Airbnb rental. And, I am mostly happy!
Anger and fear are drivers that often seem drunk. They lead us down conversations we might wish we had rather not had.
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