There is a moment within each week that suddenly becomes an uphill battle first, the alarm set before the rising sun the softness of sleep holding me in place then, the journey from solitude and silence into color and chaos and voices pitched loud transitions usually smooth automatic predictable become a sudden culture shock in … Continue reading Push
Morning Meditations I stand in the sun breathing in the day's gratitude taking in the sleepy world before traffic awakens to the roads the doves and the bees make short work of their music while the rabbits duck in and out of hiding wildlife in the suburbs greets my awakening eyes as peace washes over … Continue reading Morning Meditations
Morning Meditations
Gentleness We offer each other a soft landing within a world of hardened hearts we take the moment for breath for the pause for listening to the heartbeat that still runs steady beneath our feet We offer our own gentleness flowing outward into the world a quiet defiance in the face of everything brash a … Continue reading Gentleness #MondayBlogs
Gentleness #MondayBlogs
Perfect Conditions The sky would never have fallen if the cliffs had reached higher heights none of it would have ended in disaster if only we had been stronger, better, morewe confront every hypothetical with repentance and endless regrets donning our armor to face all the things that were never real we borrow trouble and … Continue reading Perfect Conditions
Perfect Conditions
Hope #MondayBlogs The tiniest push as we climb towards the sun chasing the light that nourishes us becomes unstoppable as we break through the barriers that keep us bound the limits that seek to bury us alive we hold fast to hope indomitable in our will steadfast as we rise returning to joy as we … Continue reading Hope #MondayBlogs
Hope #MondayBlogs
Chasing Sunsets The hours after dinner spent on the move from one vantage point to the next as the day makes its close the sun sinks to bed but there is always another west to catch that last glimpse a dying day a magic hour chasing sunsets in a surface scramble and then comes the … Continue reading Chasing Sunsets
Chasing Sunsets
Glass Houses They cast the stones to fly ready to shatter the world blinded by reflections on the surfaces they see a world of glass houses each breath one step from heartbreak a grief that comes for us all after so much wasted time and so much like the bell that cannot be unrung what … Continue reading Glass Houses #MondayBlogs
Glass Houses #MondayBlogs
Stricken Snowscapes and chills a strange homecoming as the world begins to right itself chaos is silenced and crowds are dispersed until only the loss remains an empty chair an unseen view a thought where once you were - Caroline A. Slee
Stricken #MondayBlogs
Stars tumble down never fixed to their place the sky grows empty with the years as each angelic light crashes to the ground below stars tumble down shifting fortunes and constellations and humanity is lost without any northern star to guide us angels fall the heavens cannot hold them from that endless velvety darkness they … Continue reading Stars Tumble Down
Stars Tumble Down
Stay #MondayBlogs Morning echoes with old conversations the millions of times I heard your voice the laughter and the plans and the simple nothings that live in my heart while you live no more grief is a constant companion walking at my side in her mourning clothes and church-like whispers and the prolonged seconds of … Continue reading Stay #MondayBlogs