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 measure, I am blessed. In ways that delight and ways that overwhelm. — Among these […]
Poetry
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 by virtue of our meeting there This song of mine is based on one of […]
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 to the buzzer on the drying machine and the great folding that awaits to […]
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 of all kinds presence & companionship now & always
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 soul body, face, or eyes family, job, or home sun, moon, or stars similar, […]