addiction

God why is it so difficult nearly impossible in most cases to quit? If you built us with this addictive quality fully intending it to be turned on to You why then Lord does the ice cream in the freezer call so much more heartily than...

inside job

there is a dictator inside -might i mention, he’s a lunatic?- tossing mandates, flinging new judgements keeping you eyes on alert for trouble at every waking light. don’t follow him. there is no need to create new furrows in your brow when there is another...

the what if one

they seemed to have been worry-faced for so long concerned about the one taking up the rear. lost in those curiouses the far-away gaze on his face. starry-eyed questioning pink-cheeked inquires (if only to the sky) what if what if what if- to the grass that sung as...

withstand

withstand criticism. withstand hate. withstand condemnation. withstand judgment. never. never. ever. withstand your true nature. be done with that. fish cannot drown in water. birds cannot sink in air. you cannot die in your one true life....

unnerved and undone by other people’s company

she did it to me again this morning Amy Gerstler shook my notion of how I was wrong in the world that was right. I am not eccentric or off-center put out by a world that is full of model citizens in my desire to stand at this age and wish I had somehow been able to do...

love as living things

things not yet seen things keeping company hour by hour lifting hands to paper to mug to shovel and brush and soaped up dishes I don’t know if it’s become dangerous this love of things unseen in the alone hours and days spent with these bits of my life....