When it all shakes out, beloved, you will know what is true and what was only pretense, And it will hurt, because there are things you wanted to be true that will never be true, and things you needed to be false, that were never false, and things in the middle that you will discover […]
The Gift of You (a poem)
(post #10) a month long gathering-up of this real heart and life: see all posts here You bound in my door, banging screen into begonias. “Auntie! There is this thing – And I want to do – And can we make – And can I read – ?” I want to throw my head back […]
Still The Loneliness Reeks
(post #6) see list of all posts here _________________ Where are you in this grid of stone quarried from what lies beneath the hills of Sonoma County? The Flying Goat boasts windows of sunlight, walls of minimalistic white, coffee roasted at $16 a pound, and still the scent of urine comes in its doors. Where […]
Shake Out And Play, Mama
(post #4) see list of all posts here My friend Laura, when summing up my series in a FB post, wrote: Her theme this month is the gathering-in of living a heart- focused life; and that being present in our daily grind is what nurtures those big dreams, one small, faithful step at a time. […]
The Gift Is In These Walls
The gift is in these walls, a bit musty from food frying and a bit dirty from child-hands running across old white paint. The gift is in this air, fresh morning air chilled, sucking in through windows with wood smoke and sandalwood oil, afternoon air warming through window-plates of glass and through the steam of […]
The Day I Wake
He wraps himself in light as with a garment…He walks upon the wings of the wind. (Psalm 104) The day I wake I find you spoken in a thousand gleams of light all the material, all the weight you roll yourself and hide yourself and reveal yourself and the day I wake I pour myself […]
With Me In The Rain (survivor songs # 16)
With Me In The Rain by Ramone Romero “…I guess I have no other way to go Lead me on, then, through it all Be my comfort in the rain…” Read the the painting’s full poem here. About The Artist Ramone Romero believes that God is real, personal, and still speaks today – often through visions, […]
Matthew 6:25, A Poem (survivor songs #14)
Matthew 6:25 Listen, Beloved Let go of your desperation stop scrambling and flow-with-me I AM your food your drink your skin-and-bones I AM what-who-that-which gives you your substance-sustenance-EVERYTHING your next breath comes-from-me you.aren’t.in.control.of.anything! the birds know their lives are at-my-mercy and so they wake up singing for joy and fly free in the wind. wake-up-singing […]
A Marriage Song
A Marriage Song by G.K. Chesterton Why should we reck of hours that rend While we two ride together? The heavens rent from end to end Would be but windy weather, The strong stars shaken down in spate Would be a shower of spring, And we should list the trump of fate And hear a […]
Up-Hill
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You […]