when you wonder~

I’ve wandered into big wonder many times in my life the child, wildly birthed from my own body gently cradled into my arms.           the workshop faces, staring back at me, the eager eyes, telling me I have something good and get to...

thoughts on a new year~

There is a deep quiet in these winter months. I profess as I often do, that we were meant to hibernate these short, cold days away…. But in this quite-this week in particular with the anticipation of the coming new year and now it, 2017, crawling under the...

Silken holiday morning: so much more light~

There is a silken veil of fog only darkness knows about and perhaps the reflective cloud-sky. darkness, the sky, and the one light left on by a distracted hand shining from the garage eve onto a circle-patch of damp lawn and me. the air is oddly warm  but not...

Onward 50~

There is still a surprised disbelief that I am here.  That these hands becoming spotted this hair thinning and greyed these knees-are they really mine?!- showing signs of- seen on my grandmother!- elephant-likeness…. utter surprise. Aging is a strange...

life comes in clusters: May Sarton

I call them rhythms ebbs and flows of days- moments even- solitude; busy-ness company; quite alone. not just days and moments either- weeks months and years. it is all rhythm clusters~ Life comes in clusters and autumn, the fall of leaves the falling away of long days...

this is merely the skin of who I am~

50. It’s coming fast. Some days its bothersome-in the way this modern culture has taught it to be- getting old~             Most days it just is, though. And when I let it be, and let me be in it, it is a tool      ...