He read her wavelength, sight of smile, her eyes both distant and directed in; a seeing with soul more so than sight that, intuitively, he knew. It was a way they were—spirit-resonance when they recognized without words or say; a quiet sense and a quiet know they loved for its silence, share, and […]
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SIMPLE QUIET
New Years came and they celebrated in simple, quiet way. Outside home in the trees, light snow fell in cover and blanket of the world. In, a fire held in hearth; candles lit on island face, kettle on the stove in low begin of boil as they slow danced on rug in the space […]
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LIVING CHANCE
We rest in the kitchen in the morning light whose walls are cast in rainbow speckles of broken light through snowflake ornament of cut glass that hangs in eastern window through which sun shines. It is quiet time, my mother-in-law and I, that we share often when I am east and her daughter, […]
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ATROPHY
I went for a run again today. This makes two days in a row, but this one I went alone. My legs ached (and still do) unused to and atrophied from my period of complacence. The cold air burned my lungs, or more my heart by feeling and place (and if […]
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POSSIBILITY’S BELIEF
She closed her eyes and saw again play of vision as before; slight changed to the will of mind, focused place of sense and see, and too surprises as they revealed. Closed eyes, she smiled, letting vision play further and to complete. Only then did eyes open, spirit light, body warm, enlivened in possibility’s […]
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DECEMBER RUN
I went for a run with my son today. I couldn’t tell you how long it’s been. I started with a bold statement, “I’m going to go get our teenagers into shape.” Then I listened to myself, how ridiculous and untrue it was and fast-corrected, “No, I’m […]