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Paradigms with Love Attached
With love, compassion becomes an easy companion. Courage does not come in large containers. It is not bought by the jug, but can only fill the cup drop by drop. Love ventures into areas where courage falters but the heart makes waves. The highest framework we can choose is one by which the heart is…
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Excerpt from The Last Bird Sings
The clapboard house we lived in was neat. It had a mystery about it and even now memory brings forth details. Being of an ethnic background, there were certain things incompatible with today’s understanding. Things done in a certain way and values kept. The cellar was where we lived our lives with meaning. Within the…
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Come To My Table
Come to my table and sit awhile and I will tell you tales of years gone by, attended by loves and those who held magic in their hands. We have supped and laughed and cried some, but mostly told the tales that love spun out of gold. It was a rich time; not the coin…
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Our Sense Of Time
There is a sense of time stretching from here to other worlds whose names are not in my vocabulary. I am certain of here because this is where I am. I pushed away the snow no longer pristine as first it came. I took off my coat; too heavy now with the approaching spring. Too…
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Four Of Us Less One. . .
In Memory of David . . . We sit and we break bread, the four of us less one. We think of him but do not speak of him who misses us as we miss him. Our loss so great, the pain so blue, we can but weep. Yet so close we sit, the thinnest…
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Kiss The Morning
Until Spring reaches all of all of us, I will be posting a few of my winter scenes still for sale. Those of you who have seen ones I have posted before and wonder if they are still available, contact me . There are some where I have used the verses over…
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THE RUNNER
In memory of Dennis whose laughter I will forever remember THE RUNNER Fierce as the fighter at sword’s end, he pierces the ethers with feet pursuing in active rite a holy destination. With easy strides cutting the air cleanly, his pursuit begins in quest of his ecstasy; bought at the cost of a body agonizing…
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SMALL COMFORT
In the case of young women who have cracked glass ceilings, I wish to remind them that generations of women have prepared partners for them who wish to parent their children. That there were women free of commitments or those who shrugged those commitments to do what they felt was theirs over the years was…
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The Need For Connections
It is a fact of life that when things are offered and we do not accept them, then when we want them, we find they are withdrawn. It is a matter of inner vision, not having to do with sight. We cannot see our need at the time. But upon thinking and when we see…
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Kiss The Moon Winner
I am pleased to announce that the winner of the drawing of Kiss The Moon is Luanne Thulstrup who is from the Northwest. I wish to thank all those who entered and viewed my work. And I wish to thank Maria Wulf for her generous offer to speak of the drawing on Full Moon Fiber…