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Soul Writers Circle: Two Spots Left

Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Explore mindfulness and writing in a monthly online community. Join me and my fabulous co-host Augusta Kantra for inspiration, connection and heart-awakening conversation in Soul Writers Circle. We have several openings for our sixth season starting July 16. It’s a six-month commitment to yourself and the group, a chance to find support in endeavors that are often solitary. Monday sessions are full, but the Sunday cohort has two spots left. Let’s play!

For more information and to register: click here

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On the Night I Learn (Again) We Are Doomed

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 30, 2023| 18 Comments »


 
 
And if it isn’t deep sea mining
it is drought, and if not drought,
it will be mobs incited by memes,
and if it’s not mobs it will be
our own fear. And
the lilacs that have been here
for a hundred years are blooming
more beautifully tonight
than I have ever seen them,
every branch heavy
with sweet purple blooms.
It is all falling apart, love.
That’s what the river sings
as it carves the canyon,
as it breaks down the boulders,
as it carries the detritus, the logs.
Just tonight I heard an estimated
eighty years left for humanity.
Still, tonight the scent of lilacs
meets us with faithful beauty
and an old song of spring
rises on the lips.
How is it, despite the trouble,
I feel so much love
for this disappearing world,
so much love for this doomed race
as I begin to sing.
 

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All the Honey is Back on Shelves!

Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2023| 3 Comments »

Thank you to everyone who already purchased my most recent book of poems, All the Honey. Great news! It sold out of its first printing AND its second printing and now the third printing is available and you can purchase it again! 

You can buy it at:

  • Bookshop.org, (which supports local bookstores)
  • Amazon (it’s saying you’ll get the books in July … but at least it can be ordered!)
  • Between the Covers (my local bookstore … I will go sign the books before they send them out)
  • your own bookstore

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Aspen at Heart

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 29, 2023| 6 Comments »


 
 
How would it be
to live like the aspen,
to know the self
as one expression
of a glorious, radiant whole,
to live in communion
instead of competition,
to be the first to come in
where damage has been done—
and oh, so much damage
has been done.
I, too, want to grow even in winter,
in cold and naked times
when growth feels impossible,
want to be at once
both soft and strong.
I, too, want to be fueled by light
so I might offer shelter
for the rest of the world.

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One Beginning

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 29, 2023| 7 Comments »

 
 
so spindly
these seedlings
that will soon feed hundreds

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Making a Difference

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 27, 2023| 17 Comments »


            for my daughter
 
 
She is the hero of this story,
not because she killed an enemy
or fought a beast or traveled
to a distant snowy and hostile land.
She is the hero because she stayed,
which is sometimes the hardest thing to do.
She is the hero because she is kind.
Because she cries in the movie
when the letter from a dead man
arrives to talk about love.
Because every day she finds ways to laugh.
She is the hero because she holds my hand.
Because she teases me with no mercy
and knows all my flaws
and still tells me she loves me.
Because sometimes she’s scared.
Because she wakes every morning
and shows up for the day,
even though she hates mornings,
though she has seen unspeakable things,
she wakes up, opens her hands,
her heart, her eyes, her ears,
and lets life fill her.
And the next day,
she does it again.

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Blood, Like Salt Water

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 27, 2023| 10 Comments »


 
 
There is in each of us an ocean
full of secrets strange and luminous,
an ocean with depths we do not understand,
with dark we often fear,
a place almost impossible to visit
and yet it moves with us
everywhere we go,
informs every conversation,
underlies every thought.
There is treasure there,
but it belongs to the depths
the way the heart
belongs to the body.
Everything depends on this.
Lately, I’m learning to think of treasure
only as a verb,
not as a thing to be taken.
I’m learning that to live
is to be an ocean.
 

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More than Happiness

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on May 26, 2023| 16 Comments »

    for Joan on her 68th birthday
           
 
I wish you the peace
that comes when we trust ourselves
to meet whatever life brings.
I wish you love beyond
happy endings—
the kind of love
that seeps into everything
no matter where the story goes.
Today, I planted cosmos
in the garden. Inevitably,
they will grow into cosmos.
This is what I wish for you—
the delight of growing
inevitably into yourself.
The thrill of knowing
your beauty makes a difference
in the world—
how, in the garden of my heart,
you are ever blooming,
like a surprise larkspur
brought in as a seed,
and now that it’s here,
it will never leave.
 
 
 

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One Foray

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 25, 2023| 3 Comments »

orienting my day
by this constellation of morels
I find myself five years ago

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Momentary Altar

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 23, 2023| 12 Comments »


On the altar of sunset,
I place the scent of lilacs
we used to pick every year
to give your teachers
on the last day of school.
I place the sound of the river
where we used to stand on the banks
and throw rocks for the joy of the splash.
I place the wild and vibrant
green of spring
and the new paths your father
has mowed in the field.
I place the ponderosa tree
now taller than you were when you died
and the golden light at the end of the valley.
I place my own naked heart.
Everywhere is an altar,
a place to remember you.
The pond. The driveway. The field.
Everywhere a place to pause,
to wish you well, to tell you
I remember. I remember.
You were here. You are here.
I remember.

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