Mind-fullness in Storyland
Every moment holds a story or two or three or… We cast our eyes, our ears, our minds and hearts out THere, and reel in all kinds of refuse from the sea of life. Some beautiful, some horrifying. And...
View ArticleDease Lake Avalon
We three gather for this year at ‘The Dease’; old friends united forever in heart and kinship. Sharing old joys and heartaches, letting ‘the now’ fills us up with unabashed laughter and gin, good...
View ArticleHoughton, Michigan… souvenir… haibun
Enjoying a day of garage sale-ing about town a couple of weeks ago; I filed through this box of old postcards and misc. ephemera. I found this (1903) leather, wood-burned and painted ‘postcard’...
View ArticleIt’s Already Here
I woke this morning with a low clap of thunder. The sky so dark I thought it was way earlier in the morning than it was. The smell of the rain filling me up. We needed the rain, with all these...
View ArticleMorning Season Report….a haibun
So still out there this morning. A very faint breeze lifts the wet leaves. There is the distant sound of crickets with that pulsing hum. A cicada gives a long buzz while it readies itself to split...
View ArticleImagine… a haibun
Imagine… anything you like. There is No limit. No one to tell you can or can’t or how big or little you can imagine. Imagine… Anything. Create it in your minds eye as if it IS. It’s as real as...
View Articlelean in… come closer
Days ago, I was inspired by my astrology friend Teri Parsley Starnes,( here is her blog, take a visit and you may read the article that inspired me. http://starsdanceastrology.blogspot.com/ : ) to...
View ArticleAUTUMN’S CALL
A week has come and gone, with no feeling that time made such a quick departure from days tiding away into the sea of yesterdays. There is no holding on to it, on this sand shore, turning to see the...
View Articleliving in full spectrum
Life Love Death love dissonance radiance life death love Life’s wheel keeps on turning with each breath Whether you swim the shallows or dive deep Whether the Spring of you rises all green and...
View ArticleWearing the rosy pink… A pantoum
If I breathe into the day, let it rise in me even if the Sun is hiding, I can imagine what ever I want. I can replace any Imagery I fancy to make my inner vision respond to what I choose to feel. It’s...
View ArticleDOROTHY’S GIRL…
Dorothy’s path was the Sun laid to meander the way to OZ Furtive pauses and feral distractions Life to death and a ruby resurrection My feet are bare in the tap tap Heel to heel silent laid to moon...
View ArticleInto the Labyrinth
I walked the Labyrinth under the blaze of the Arizona sun Walked it in sacred ritual Some of the ash of their bodies I took and tapped them on my flesh over my heart. My loved Ones I tap…tap.. tap...
View ArticleNOW
Now varieties herself in Rainbows and disrupt A cacophony of moments filtered by rise and fall She fancy’s herself giving presence to the present Of what Is in what ever matter matters. She isn’t sly...
View ArticleThe shimmering of “The Veil”
All Hallows Eve. The veil thin now between the worlds. Only in the far periphery can you catch the shimmer and twilight pulse right at edge of you shoulder Like a heart beat yearning to know what...
View ArticleDias de los Muertos… In the never ever no end
Dias de los Muertos. In honor of who held your heart full as the years and days passed in the timeless And bodies of flesh and bone leave us In their death we find our lonely loss These days of ash...
View ArticleDay 3 of Gratitude. What moves the breath of Joy.
Gratitude given moves the breath of Joy Inhale the sweetness of the world made better In the follow of passion made sacred by doing Taking moments for what fills your cup Inhale the sweetness of the...
View ArticleDay 4 … The inhale loves her exhale
Day 4…. “I am thankful and honoring of this body that is a Miracle.” Catch the wind in trees The exhale loves her inhale Delight in breathing Delight in breathing Autumn gold be your inhale Give away...
View Articlemake way for what thrills your soul
Make way for what thrills your soul Cradling the chaos and fear like a mother who loves her child pouring out the love and light when darkness makes way to threat and the world collides her grief in...
View ArticleSleepless on the Evolving Earth…. a pantoum
Sleepless on the Evolving Earth… The wind tore the trees to the roof battering the night Sleep had no where to lay her pillow down Hoping for The dream that leads The Way Least the riot of elements...
View ArticleFrom the Pacific to the Great Lakes
Serendipity finds the touch ancient familiar Even in the not having made skin to skin The familiar holds the magi’s stone vibrating A long ago gives call to natures rising touch There is no matter...
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