Risking Delight in a World Gone Awry
“We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the …
Tag Archives: poetry
When Every Cell Becomes a Miracle – Dancing on Ecstatic Toes
I’ve always loved Walt Whitman’s way of turning the mundane into a miracle, or seeing what’s marvelous in the everyday. …
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 …
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 …
Prose Poem: 13 Ways of Looking at Dying
October is the month I was born and the month my mother died. Sweetness and sadness rolled into one. It …
“I See You But Do You See Me?” Poem & Paintings
We’ve all seen the headlines, how the homeless are being harassed, their tents and belongings bulldozed away, being told to …
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 …
Summery & Sensual Poetry & Paintings
Deep summer for me always evokes lush gardens, lovers strolling, lazy afternoons in the sun and shade, children laughing and …
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 …
