Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. —Zelda Fitzgerald The Unbarred View The coastal plain of my childhood stretches long and wide. No hills to roll down, no mountains to climb. I wondered about those places where brooks babbled and rocky edges left barely [...]
I smiled. Bluebirds splashed in delight. Among the trees and gardens of our two-acre homesite, nature provides daily lessons on the survival of the fittest, squatters' rights, and how wildlife play. We have a Bluebird house in the back, but the Sparrows moved in and Mockingbirds harass both as intruders [...]
What’s Next When did the season change? How quickly mousy turned to silver and supple morphed into road maps of memories. Where flew the years of balancing meals, messiness, miles, and me? What happens next? Who am I now? The seasons pull me forward— becoming more. 4.05.22 . . [...]
I can hear Janis Joplin’s raspy voice as she belts out, “Freedom's just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” I've been thinking about freedom, what we do have to lose, and how we can choose to see beyond ourselves. What does it mean to be free? Why do some [...]
Leaves can teach us how to do it better. Nature never mourns or complains about the cycle of life from seed, to bud, to blooms, to decay, and back around again. Humans, including this one, struggle with the letting go. For everything, there is a season. I find myself in [...]
I've wondered, "What can one person do to change a troubled world?” I found a few ideas from Brad Aronson in his book, HumanKind: Changing the World One Small Act at a Time. Brad describes the small acts that helped him and his wife, Mia when she faced a [...]
I wake to the popping sounds of lights and electric objects flickering on and off. A surge of volts trying desperately to come to life. Then nothing. Stumbling to get my footing in the darkness, I realize my watch has a flashlight. Who would have imagined 30 years ago [...]
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant. —Henry David Thoreau Others’ Eyes I like to think I have my biases reigned in, tucked neatly in my pocket, and hidden from my thinking and action. No matter how hard I [...]
Every morning, I read. I venture into newsletters, writer websites, news, and literary offerings. I meander the expanse of words on the internet. Why? Feeding the Muse I’m searching for the glint of an idea, a combustible fragment eager to set ablaze my Muse. What I find exuberates me [...]
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too?” —Emily Dickinson Who am I? I sat on a zoom call of unlikely poets. Analysts, field inspectors, payroll, and human resource professionals from different departments of a state agency gathered together with only one purpose. Each came with [...]
