Greener Grass

I walk the trail with you Some days our walk is brutally hard We cry Some days our walk is exquisitely ecstatic We laugh, dance, sing I walk the trail with you The trail forks We choose which way is best not by what brings the least pain but what…

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Grasping

The only way to stop an addiction is to stop; the only way to be free of an addiction is to let it go. Read that again…to be free of an addiction, let it go. This is not a difficult thing to do, this letting go, once you see and…

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Daring Kindness

Dare I suggest this creative/tweak/revision/editing of Dr. Kent M. Keith’s ‘The Paradoxical Commandments’ often attributed incorrectly to Mother Teresa? I was never fond of the repetitive ‘anyway’ so I mercifully zapped it for good. May my lines inspire you to post your own version: If you are helpful, some may…

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Love’s Fruit

A child is like a ripening delicious apple to be polished with loving strokes, not struck with blows of anger and bruised to be savored to experience the sweetness contained within and to discover the seeds of love stored at the core of the heart which is food for our…

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