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Memoir of a Marriage in Poetry, Part I – Innocent Love

April 12, 2021

In celebration of April as National Poetry Month and our 50th wedding anniversary (yes, I was a child bride), I’ll …

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Franz Wright: Like Touching a Bird’s Exposed Heart

March 11, 2021

Reading this poem on Vale of Soul-Making struck me to the core, it is so exquisite. That mingling of the …

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Truth and Love Wins, and I Can Breathe Again!

November 8, 2020

I feel like I’ve been ship-wrecked at sea for the past four years and finally have reached the shore. I …

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“What I Regret Most, Failures of Kindness” – Graduation Speech Goes Viral

May 26, 2020

With graduation season upon us, I thought I’d re-share the most inspiring graduation speech I ever read. One by the …

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Mothering the World on Mother’s day

May 10, 2020

In the Time of Corona we all need a little mothering on Mother’s Day. A huge influence on my understanding …

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“Love is a Language Few Practice, But All Speak”

March 8, 2020

Unreast in Baton Rouge By Traci K. Smith            after the photo by Jonathan Bachman Our …

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10,000 Thank-You’s! A Blogging Milepost

December 16, 2018

I have so many things to be grateful for, not least among them the ten-thousand people who, for whatever reason, …

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Seeing the Self in What We Love

November 28, 2018

I’ve become mesmerized by the quote below I found on The Beauty We Love. These first four lines, especially, move …

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“Perfect Love” – All We Need for What Ails Us

September 27, 2018

The highest common denominator for all spiritual practices and religious teachings is Love. Love with a capital L, meaning that …

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“Love After Love.” A Poem. A Feast.

August 20, 2018

Love After Love by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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