Meditate. Wait. I hesitate, I can vacillate, translate, inflate, celebrate, masticate, conjugate… But meditate? When I wake my mind skates straight to figure eights. I cannot sate the breakneck gait. Meditate? It’s some mistake. Wait. Intake breath, deflate. Thoughts abate, […]
Continue reading »Mosquito Thoughts
Pesky ideas swarm,though swatted away.With netting of reading,closed doors of planning,mosquito thoughts arekept at bay with days begunlived and endedin program.
Continue reading »We Call Ours Lakes
“We call ours lakes,” he said,a Texas boy now Michigander.Eleven-hundred miles around,but lake – fresh-water, even. Lake Pauline where I grew uponce hosted a power planton Wanderer’s Creek. Lake FortPhantom near my home dwarfsPauline – has 29-miles of shore. Meager […]
Continue reading »An Open Heart
She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance. It is easy for her, she opens her heart and accepts everything. — Morgan Llywelyn Life […]
Continue reading »The Search
When I was just a young man and lived in Bethlehem I craved a setting bold, grand, alive – Jerusalem! I left the town of David; the city wasn’t far. I thought the Temple splendid, the town a grand bazaar. […]
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