This morning I’ve been tidying up scattered papers, gluing poems into my scrapbook, and rereading precious entries. One poem I added today is “Everything is Waiting for You”, by David Whyte. You can listen to him read it aloud, here. Imagine my delight to then go to refill my coffee cup, and find a loveContinue reading “My Coffee Cup Loves Me”
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Watch This More than Once
“The hallmark of the coming decades will be grief.” (Francis Weller) I’ve had an unsettled feeling lately, even though things in my life are going well. It’s like an absence, a loneliness for something that I didn’t know was gone. Lately I’m missing the hummingbirds, but their leaving is a scheduled departure, and my heartContinue reading “Watch This More than Once”
Fifty Years
I dig my way into the back corner of the storage space, past suitcases, sleeping bags, the keyboard I bought to console myself in 1990 when I… (I find myself not wanting to finish that sentence.) …in 1990 when I left my marriage, my home, and my piano. My piano and my songbooks were whatContinue reading “Fifty Years”
Foggy Eyes
This morning, as usual, about 5am, I went outside before turning on any lights. The wind was blowing, and it was strangely foggy. Not the damp sort of fog I sometimes encounter in the early hours, but a windy dry fog. What a weird morning, I thought. Then, I came back inside and turned onContinue reading “Foggy Eyes”
Unusual Mosquitos
These were not the usual mosquitos to greet me in the predawn hour. Every morning, unless it is raining, I am up and out the door with my coffee, my journal, and my many thoughts. When a mosquito or two come to join me, I wave them off with instruction to “go feed the birds.”Continue reading “Unusual Mosquitos”
