Laundry (Folding Prayers)

    “So, how do you pray right now?” she asks, “Mostly prayers on the fly?” “Yes,” I say, thankful to hear that my repetitive refrains of “please, please, please” count for something. ...

Hopes Deferred (a Prayer)

God of the summer rain, send us each a moment of shaking laughter or tears to crack open the dry, barren land of our hopes deferred.    This post is linked with dVerse Poet’s...

Life is a Field (this is not a Detour)

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing (or wrong turns and right turns), there is a field.  I’ll meet you there.  -Rumi   *   *   * If life’s a highway, then I’m in trouble. I felt good when I turned 30, knowing I had...

Ordinary (Five Minute Friday)

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. William Blake The whole world is dripping, gray, water running through the streets and pooling in the Quick Stop parking...

Conversion (A Poem)

  The way a snowflake melts into a river, this is one way to explain it; the way everything is changed and yet what was remains, now part of something more. This post is linked with dVerse Poets Pub. Photo credit:...
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