The Woods (a poem)

Within you dwells a wood –  there are trails, some old and overgrown, others fresh-cut and, between them, wide open spaces filled with untamed growth. In those woods you are every age you have ever been, every age you will be. Those woods walk up the...

Harvest (I want to be home when the combine comes)

Photo Source: HERE. The neighbor’s dog killed our kitten.  He’s an old speckled hunting hound who hobbles painfully through a large fenced yard. Our kids feed him handfuls of bone shaped biscuits through the fence and run back and forth calling his name. ...

Half Moon Heart (a poem)

My heart is like the half-moon peaking out of the mid-day blue sky. There is more, always more, hidden; more than I can know or see. Lord, teach me to tend, carefully, the shadow places where deep roots dwell. Teach me to love, tenderly, the cool darkness, to prize it...

Three Days (a poem)

(I recently spent six days inpatient in a local Behavioral Health unit due to the onset of severe and debilitating panic attacks.  I continue to work now, on the other side of that darkness, to process the experience, to understand its place in my story.  To...

Brown Paper Bag (Unpacking My Recent Hospital Stay)

I recently, unexpectedly, spent six days in a local Behavioral Health Unit due to the sudden onset of severe and debilitating panic attacks.  I’m so grateful to be home now and feeling better.  My time in the hospital now feels almost like it never...
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