Beautiful Child. There’s something surprising and cathartic about sifting through all my old papers, photos, diaries, and books. At this point, I have much less attachment to them, so I view them through a lens of ‘do I need this?’ or ‘do I love this?’ As I’ve started a big cull, anticipating a move to … More You Are Beautiful In Every Single Way
For Amira de la Garza “You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything, but I figure, hey, it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.” — Lily Tomlin Lately my dreams leave me rattled. In them, I unpack a very large cooler … More Dazed and Confused
For my Mother Day 25: A – Z Challenge “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” ― Robert Frost Remember Your Sense of Wonder. As I get older, it gets more difficult to match how I feel on the inside with how I look on the outside. There’s an aspect of child-like wonder that directs … More Young at Heart
“Buy experiences, not things. Spending on experiences makes people happier than spending on things. Things get broken and go out of style. Experiences get better every time you talk about them.” ~Jean Chatzky THE UNRAVELING. So much is unsettled right now. So much is unbound and unclear and uncertain. At night I am restless and … More As You Close One Door, Another Opens
Celebrating Perfect Imperfection This morning one of my poems is featured on The Huffington Post. It was accepted many, many months ago, so I am happy to finally see it in print. It is called, What I See, (click the title to read the poem) and it is, basically, a love letter to my aging … More What I See (Featured Fifty Poetry)
“Live to the point of tears.” ~ Camus A – Z Challenge – Day 20 If I could save time in a bottle Awake again in the middle of the night, called to go outside. I stand under the stars and watch the moon rise. Inside my head, a song* from a movie I saw at … More Time In a Bottle
“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.” ~ Dean Koontz Over twenty years ago, I witnessed a friend giving birth to her son. She was pregnant and … More Birth and Death: Coming Full Circle
For my Mother “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is like the roar of a lion. What sickness can, therefore, be an obstacle?” I am thinking today about the line from Mary Oliver’s poem (above). Our lives — the moments and years that we often take for granted; the minutiae of every day life; the value of each precious minute — … More Your Wild and Precious Life
I bought a copy of Desiderata by Max Ehrmann at The Old Curiosity Shoppe in Seattle while I was still in high school. I have no idea what happened to that small piece of parchment with the handwritten calligraphy. I am sure it got lost along with much of the detritus of my childhood. Still, the … More Desiderata Unraveled
Our fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke The past couple of years have been almost exclusively about conquering, dismantling and letting go of my fears. I’ve been afraid of so many things. Risk. Love. Success. Failure. I feared if I looked at my own shadow side, it might swallow … More Taming the Dragon
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