Category: Essays

  • Begin With A ‘Maybe’

    Oftentimes in my comments I will say that if I can introduce a `maybe ‘ into someone’s thinking,  we can help broaden premises.  Because I have lived long enough to see old ideas fail,  am I open to new ideas.   After due thought, I incorporate them  but  also realize that others are not as eager…

  • Let Us Fall In Love

    Let us resolve to fall in love with our Earth.  Other resolutions have already died.   Let us fall in love with our Earth and keep her alive.   Yet how does one fall in love with Earth?  It is easy.   It is a different kind of feeling, a oneness, a union that nothing dissolves or divides. …

  • We Connect With The All

    I received an e mail with photos of several large elephants making their way to the home of a man who had befriended them.  This person named Lawrence Anthony spent his life caring for elephants in South Africa.  His death occurred on March 7, 2012.  Two days after he died, wild elephants showed up at…

  • 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  It is a fact of life that when things are offered and we do not accept them, then when we want them, we find they are withdrawn.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…

  • Eyes That See

    I see a difference in the eyes of people whose vision is long and far away. These are people whose eyes do not stop at the curb but travel distances to a horizon higher than buildings and junks of every order and even lifting beyond the trees and the mountains. The difference in these eyes…

  • No Comfort

    I don’t as a rule write of personal feelings, though for those who read my work, they would argue that my feelings are evident.   I wish to comment on a favorite blogger whose site is Full Moon Fiber Art.com.   She is Maria Wulf and she posted Loving Rocky.   It is a big decision she and…

  • The Weight Of Words

    There are words not in fashion these days.   The words are so old they are perhaps Victorian.   Words like honor and commitment.  When these words are used by someone who truly understands the weight of words, there is a time of hesitation, of expectancy and a heart stopping moment that puts the word into a…

  • A Presence In My LIfe

    (In May of 2000 I, with the help of family, had self published a hard cover book of poetry called Kiss The Moon;  A Woman Speaks and Gives Grace. Except for a few copies I held back, 500 books were sold.   In the front of the book I explained how the poetry came to be.  …

  • How And Why

    A grandson asked me to explain how my writing comes about.   How I give birth to things and the meaning of some articles and poems.  Some authors and musicians have said that the words and music are heard with an inner ear.  Often writers will say they are writing with the flow. Ralph Waldo Emerson…

  • The Leader Coach

    I was thinking of our son's disappointment in the baseball tournament.  He coached the team and they lost.  He poured himself into them and it just did not come together.  Another place, another time, I told him.  It will happen I should have said. His disappointment was keen and I could not take it seriously…