Browsing Category: Poetry
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Fulfilling lives are not of an elixir. Happiness does not well from spring made secret to all but a few. Rewarding lives begin in ourselves and are enriched by those that come into, out of, and—when especially blessed—stay within our lives. Good people are all around. Enjoy them when they’re found.
WHEREVER YOU ARE
WHEREVER YOU ARE:A quick little morning scribble from having an opportunity to try and make something with someone in another hemisphere. They were finishing their spring finals. We are near the end of our fall harvest; made me reflect how different our own life experience, seasons, and perceptions can be from someone else living in […]
PICK-ME UP
We all have life-periods when we get down, focus on our clouds instead of what’s still there on their far-side. I imagine this as an upbeat song just speaking a little firsthand affirmation to someone when they need it. Left the name blank, free for anyone to fill in for themselves, or another, should they […]
BLACK-RIFLED
“There is…nothing really good that does not emanate from the ordinance of God, and nothing, however good in itself, can be better adapted for the sanctification of the soul and the attainment of peace.”—Jean Pierre Cassaude, “Abandonment to Divine Providence”