I just read a poem or two. It’s a rainy day and it seemed like a good thing to do. It reminded me that poets exist. Many more than we will ever know. It reminded me that we might be
We Come Full Circle
We Come Full Circle A circle is opened. Sitting in the circle: People of different faiths, backgrounds, experiences, colors, voices, faces, hopes, fears, loves, names. Singing: to punctuate the silence. Silence: to punctuate the song. Eyes closed: visions unfold. Eyes
Let Me Know it Fully
Let me know it fully. A colleague said this to me today. During a webinar that he was facilitating. Let me know it fully. Not just any breath. But this breath. Not just any feeling of my fingers
Pause
Between breathing in and breathing out. Between this sentence and the next. Between thought and expression. Between hearing and listening. Between doing and doing. Between being and being. Between now and now. Between is and was. Between is and
Walk in Delight
Beyond measure, I am blessed. In ways disguised and manifest. In ways I can appreciate and ways I cannot. In ways deserved but in more ways graced. In ways that touch my daily existence and ways that don’t. Beyond
A Picture, a prayer, and a song
May we turn towards one another, and not away May our offerings be offerings of peace May we give them freely and from great abundance May the places where we meet be transformed into havens of shalom If only
An Incomplete Meditation on Connectedness
An Incomplete Meditation on Connectedness I am connected to this computer to this couch to the sounds of the white noise machines in my kids’ rooms being carried through the speaker of our video monitor
Bless
between experience and meaning between thought and expression between intention and action between seeking and finding between wanting and receiving in that space between bless
Asking for a Friend
Asking for a Friend For permission & forgiveness compassion & judgment discretion & sharing warnings & recommendations teaching & learning seeing & believing witnessing & forgetting embracing & discarding approval & disdain sharing & keeping tears of all kinds tears
everything is the same
everything is the same nothing is the same everything: same heart, mind, and soul same body, face, and eyes same family, job, and home same sun, moon, and stars nothing is the same: not heart, mind, or