WELLNESS CHECK In any moment, on any given day, I can measure my wellness by this question: Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving …
The Bridesmaid’s Speech I have known her all her life. And by that I mean I’ve seen her in the impossible light of girlhood. The spaces in between – the …
Barter Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children’s faces looking up Holding wonder …
Only in our doing can we grasp you. Only with our hands can we illuminate you. The mind is but a visitor. It thinks us out of our world. Each …
This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try as best you can, not to let The wire brush of doubtScrape …
“Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we …
Self Portrait It doesn’t interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it …
Green life doused still by the pale rainswollen clouds – Margaret Avison
“May I never not be frisky, May I never not be risqué. May my ashes, when you have them, friend, and give them to the ocean, leap in the froth …
So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you. – Mary Oliver