My eyes are getting tired my hair is going gray my teeth appear much longer my naps take most the day I can’t recall last passion’s flare or when I lost the spark I only feel the hours tick and tock my life toward dark To say I cannot see…
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…
Trust is the Secret Sauce
I was asked, What is this path of virtues so many mystics speak of? One’s actions are not created from the reaction of others; One’s progress can be measured by the expression of one’s interior state of calm and peace whereby the outward expression matches the inner and is sustained…
Spring Love Inspiration
I spent the day painting a bathroom. With each stroke and dip of brush into the can thoughts of you covered me, leaving me white-washed in love. Thoughts of you never leave me and it is during times like now, when I’ve stopped everything to really look at my thoughts…
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…
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…
Your Glorious Self
May there be peace within and without. May it begin with you and spread by your healing touch and laughter. May you know deep in your heart that you are exactly where you are meant to be right now as you receive my gratitude for all you mean to me.…
In Spite of This Lesser Self
In spite of this lesser self arise lean into new tasks old problems that face all again sunrise reflecting a collective heart pulses with a desire for our life in spite of this lesser self step grasp lift refine more find what is of value feel what is rich know…
New Kind of Love
I want one new kind of love with you I’ve had the kind that seemed so smart blew my mind broke my heart I’ve had the kind that hit me hard knocked me blind left me scarred I want one new kind of love with you I’ve had the kind…
Cookies with Butter
I turned on my laptop and there was an email my mother had written that day She said I was special and wanted the whole world to know of her blessing this way So she’d clicked the send button less than half a few seconds a slew of those emails…
One Click to the Right
Leaning forward in the optometrist chair, my forehead pressed to the ridiculously large lens contraption that has the tiny cup that holds my chin He asks Is this better or is that better I am asked to choose as he clicks one way to the right or one more to…
See What Love Can Do
see what love can do bridges the gap between me and you all the pains of the past they’ll go by in a flash won’t come back can’t come back never again see what love can do see what love can do it’s only you thinkin’ dark fears you been…
No More No Less
The idea is simple we are to share give all we have and know It’s no more It’s no less The idea is real only when we hear, only when we care only then it shows It’s no more It’s no less You, me whole of humanity make this idea…
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…