All Posts By: Byron McCoy

                “…sometimes—rarely, but magnificently—there comes a day when you’re open and relaxed enough to…receive…Your defenses might slacken and your anxieties might ease, and then magic can slip through.  The idea, sensing your openness, will start to do its work on you.  It will send the universal physical and emotional signals of inspiration (the chills up […]

                They walked together nineteenth century streets of an old harbor town; brick sidewalks and lane rising from water in narrow alleys up sloping seaside hills, clapboard sided townhomes painted in muti-color arrays as the sound of traffic carried over lanes made for horse and cart and now rattled with loose and shifted bricks under […]

                Her sky was inverse to night’s—white expanse broken with freckled stars becoming constellations that, even as surface, painted endless depths in discernment of her details.                 As dawn from rising sun, her sky blushed in rosed and living hue to warmth and touch-effect of storytelling tongue that spoke across her stars breathing life to […]

                They fell to sleep in warmed embrace as snow fell in cooling silence, stilling world of haste.                 They woke in morning to snow’s blanket cover and glow-hint promise of new-day light on horizon’s crest.  In sun’s arriving rise, light shone silver into rooms through translucent iced and frost-glazed glass that would soon melt […]

                Annie sat by open window reading as wind of autumn air filled and changed spirit in room.  Cool breath of the wind struck over face, fluttering curtains, hair and book page edges as her body warmed beneath sweater and patterned poncho frock.                 Between turnings of book’s pages, she observed sky’s change across the […]

    They created life of shared fruitfulness, taking joy in small toils that came in working earth; of suntanned skin and dirt-stained hands adorned in seeing bounties rise; tending with hands their small lotted place; ending days with the sun, in calming tiredness that is reward for expended effort and time well used.  After sun departed, […]

                “Our…relationship(s are) the inner sanctum of our emotional lives.  (They are) our first source of emotional support and our primary opportunity to develop and experience a deep level of intimacy.  For most of us, our…relationship(s) will be the one chance we have in this lifetime to truly know a person, and in turn, to […]

                “The same truth is evident among all people, at all times, and in all situations: the happiest people are those who cherish the mystery of relationships.”—Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy                 “What do you think of boundaries?”                 “I don’t,” she answered with smile.  “If meant to reach, they will be found.  […]