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Like a fawn, the tiny girl stands nearby and says nothing. She watches it all and still stays silent, safe Continue reading
Like a fawn, the tiny girl stands nearby and says nothing. She watches it all and still stays silent, safe Continue reading
Practicing simple meditation eases pain—physical, mental and spiritual pain. Meditating means sitting in silence. I learn how to let my Continue reading
I kneel in soft, long grass. Sweet bushes arch overhead. The lilac scent colors the quiet like puffs of magical Continue reading
Sheep wander around me, slow round puffs with faces. An Irish mountainside slopes up to gnarled crags. The sea moves Continue reading
[Part II of “Inner Rooms”] If I were singing the poem of my husband’s life, I’d sing of his laughing Continue reading
April 23, 2010 Two weeks ago I watched my mother die. She was 87. Old people die, but this terminal Continue reading
What if I mattered? What if sin, time and death don’t exist? What do the dying see that we do Continue reading
Imagine Leonardo da Vinci’s face after someone splashes acid on the Mona Lisa. Imagine an old man whose two middle-aged Continue reading