I run past my edge sometimes, and stumble sometimes, wondering what happened past the edge of what I can handle past what I need past what I want and not in a I AM DOOMED way, just onto the thinner ice that says with an ominous crack, whoa sister, lie down and ground yourself, wide… Read More
I woke from the unexpected nap under a sleeping child, neck bent awkwardly,emotions bent awkwardly a blue I have not been able to shake since waking.* if this were my blue, i would medicate, it is that untenable, that unbearable. it is not even a chocolate blue, or a hoolahoop blue, it is the anti… Read More
yesterday, on my way to meet a friend for coffee I drove past a bare tree, branches filled with sparrows, maybe, maybe not actually sparrows, as i am not a birder but filled with sparrows and one tangle of a nest and I laughed feast or famine, I wondered am I looking at abundance or… Read More
A note on Mindful Writing- mindfulness, to me, is just the deliberate act of being present with witness and awareness. As a writer, I also love the idea of capturing the presentness with the briefest sketches of what I witness, as a way to focus my attention. I invite you to do the same! In… Read More
the sound of voices in the next room, the rise and fall of conversation warmth of the heater turned on under my desk the sound of fingers on keys, and the creak of something as the desk rocks under my arms the hard stool, oh, that sounds bad, the backless chair on which I am… Read More
The theme for me, for these past few years anyway, has been about home. Finding it, creating it, losing it, redefining it… Yesterday (was it only yesterday?) I drove Doug past the house I used to share with Jeff. I had not been past in daylight. I had not been past in a decade, actually,… Read More
Announcing a new workshop! Inner Fire: Lighting Our Own Path Sunday, December 8th, 10:00-3:00, Soul Yoga Studio, Peterborough, NH What if we could access our quiet center, and allow ourselves to listen to the whispers of our soul’s desires, and use what we hear to create both a more nourishing present and more fulfilling future?… Read More
New Guest Post up at Seek Your Course! The middle part of the meditation? HEAVENLY. http://seekyourcourse.com/blog/2013/11/breathing-space/ Share This:
waking to a flat cloudy sky the long dark morning of late fall, the slowest dawn a stillness it hits me that it was not a dream my grandparents used to live on long island sound, on a bluff with a view out over the water. one cold winter, the sound froze. and where there… Read More
Being with a being who is dying is profound. I have dealt with life. I have dealt, on some level, with the aftermath of death. But I have never dealt with, been with, allowed myself to contemplate the process, the fact of dying. I am tender in the tenderest ways. Teary and broken open. Wanting… Read More
