Category Archives: Uncategorized

I’ve stood at this window so many times, the office too quiet behind me, practicing this distancing is lonely. This morning the wind is wailing; I hear the chink of the line against the flagpole, the pop of our metal roof; the building’s sighs are as heavy as my own in this emptiness.  This isContinue reading “Grace”

The mind is filled with deep pockets, places to tuck and fold truth into memory, and the heart knows every enclosure.  I seek rich words  — joy, hope, mercy, grace — and stitch each in, so when need arises, I can find comfort, bring conviction into the ready room of thought, consume it again andContinue reading “Vade Mecum”

“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.” — Vincent Van Gogh There are those indwelling questions, the ones that nudge us at night, keep us from falling asleep; those unknowns that haunt us, fascinate us, worry us — the questions that are asked  repeatedly,Continue reading “Our Unknowns”

I’ve learned much from looking up, in slow gazes with a willing heart, like today as we enjoyed cool  shadows under friendly trees  we met during our lovely walk, my eyes followed trunk to branch  to expansive crown.  We forget or simply dismiss the size of trees;  they become backdrop, stage setting, but they areContinue reading “Standing Under Trees”

I stand before this yellow array, a sweet reminder of little gifts — of being still and witnessing life as it is in a moment, intimating we should stay  in an embrace, linger in a kiss,  read one more book to a child  before bed, consider the blessings  of laughter, the release and exuberance  ofContinue reading “Little Gifts”

The silences between what I am reading or what I am writing are not silences at all, though if you were watching me I might appear to be doing nothing.  Actually, those pauses, pregnant thoughts, vast spaces where I plunge and leap, are attempts to understand that elusive question that hangs in the balance ofContinue reading “Glimpses”

We marched out, the day  already warm, full of birdsong  and a blue sky filled with lovely clouds.  We chatted, stopped, watched  as two birds squabbled through  the limbs — maybe it was a lover’s  quarrel about the keeping of the nest. Nearing home we were awed by the striations of colors in the sky, Continue reading “Rainbow Clouds”

There is this hesitation— if you listen you will hear it — that breath taken before the hands drop on keys; if you are really tuned in, you will hear emotion released through body to tip of fingers, energy transfered, skin to ivory — a quick tap, a deep plunge, a long hold — thereContinue reading “Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #5”

The piano keys fall like rain, a constant echo of emotion like droplets on tin, that sharp but sweet tinkling that moves us through daisy fields and down lazy streams;  the violins swoon, smooth and harmonious,  sails caught in a gentle wind, a choir of angels in perfect unison; we are swept up and carriedContinue reading “Adagio”

I desire to touch a star, pull it down from its remote perch, turn it round and round in my hands and then take a bite to see if stardust has grit. I want to smell its essence —  bright and briny as the sea.   I want to carry it in my pocket,  useContinue reading “Desiring Starlight”