Green Fuse and Pink Blossoms: A Backyard Wonderland
Spring has sprung in early abundance this year. The green fuse that Dylan Thomas wrote about in “The force that through …
Category Archives: Nature
Being Me Deeply: Details, Details! Why They Matter
I’m sitting here with my morning coffee, a flicker of fire warming the room while the dark windows slowly lighten. …
Meeting Death Full of Curiosity: Three Poems
Our lives are full of curious and mysterious things, and I’m quite certain what came before our birth and after …
A Mist-Washed World of Endless Emerging Forms
Lately I’ve been waking to a mist-washed world, hills and trees dissolving into each other. I’ve long been drawn to …
Feeling the Flow, from Mountain-Top to Marketplace
Have you ever felt being in the flow of things? That optimum experience that many athletes and artists feel when …
My Lately: Book Launch, Reviews, & Backyard Bliss
Things have been crazy around here this summer, getting ready to launch my debut novel, as well as visits with …
A Poet & Artist, Making the Unknown Known
What precipitates the creative process? For poet Mary Oliver, it’s the need to step over “the edge” into something vague …
A Song from a Dream and Rousseau’s Painting
My dreams have always been enticingly rich and evocative. Often it’s as if I’m watching an elaborate film in gorgeous …
Re-Awakened to a World of Wonder
The whole purpose of life, as I see it, this extraordinary experience in being, is to be awake to the …
Is the Universe a Gift or a Prayer Answered?
I’m sharing some poetry by Paul Wittenberger that struck me with their beauty and depth and the questions they raise …
