Rumi. I always come back to Rumi...…
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This past week in blogging and posting I highlighted what I’ve been doing this entire past month, that is, intentionally staying open – reading every thing I can get my hands on, listening and…
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I attended a poetry reading a couple of years ago where a local poet, Ketu Oladuwa, read some of his work. All powerfully written. Spoken from a place of undeniable truth. One snippet cut me…
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This blog was initially written July 25, 2016. An addendum dated Sept. 21, 2016 follows, as well as another addendum dated January 9, 2024. Our thoughts and patterns and structures create our emotions and…
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The Journey, by Mary Oliver – a biggie for me. Resonates deeply. Every day is a new start – a new facing off with the voices that shout their bad advice. I feel myself…
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Always a sweet, nostalgic weekend when Father’s Day rolls around. This year feeling a little silly so I wrote a limerick for my full-Irish father coupled with some new artwork. My pops, he was…
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Inspired by our time at Thailand’s Elephant Nature Park, I gave my brain a workout and created a poem in the palindrome style. Palindromes read the same forward as backward – a bit tricky, but…
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We read voraciously in order to keep up with the ceaseless tide of excellent literature. We read to our babies and kids so they too can become lovers of good books. Rarely, however do…
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“saunters an elderly lady in a bright yellow bonnet not even the screaming child next to her can shake her from the stillness of her dream. detached from my body, yet more deeply rooted…
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“Lyrical is an airborne rhythm, When our psyches take flight in the airy dance of lyrical, our imaginations are liberated. Lyrical imagination is grounded in intuition which has been honed in chaos. Therefore we…