Cairns

Melinda Coppola

Art Autism Bink Cairns Death and Dying Family Love Meditation Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing Yoga Yogabilities™

Hello Out There

Hello, As a very part-time Yoga teacher (and former studio owner), I maintain a separate email communication list for my students. There is a little bit of cross-over; a handful of my students (or former…

MelindaMay 30, 2022

Art Cairns Cats Death and Dying Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

Little Altars Everywhere

My home is host to little altars everywhere honoring lives lived, seasons arriving and leaving, the hundred sparks of grace and wonder, sorrow and understanding that pock and foliate hours and years squeezed into the…

MelindaDecember 29, 2020

Art Autism Bink Cairns Death and Dying Family Love Mindfulness Parenting Spirituality Writing

Gifts and Visitations

It’s been just over a month since my dear friend and soul sister Marina died, after a quick and nasty tussle with appendiceal cancer. She visits my consciousness daily, in ways both fleeting and substantial.…

MelindaJuly 31, 2020

Art Cairns Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

The art that blesses my listening hands

Making Art with Beach Stones My home hums with them–— the smooth and rough, pale and dark, striped, speckled, some with lines, or bits of mica mesmerizing the…

MelindaAugust 27, 2018

Art Cairns Nature Parenting Spirituality Uncategorized Writing

Per Annum

Every year, now, around my birthday, I feel a tug to write something, employing words to mark the privilege of completing another ride around the sun. This year’s efforts came in the form of a…

MelindaMay 27, 2018

Art Cairns Crushes Nature Spirituality

STONE LOVIN’

Dear reader, is there something in the natural world that you are really drawn to? Birds, clouds, pine trees? Lightening storms? Is there something for which you have an unrelenting affection? For, me, it’s stones.…

MelindaAugust 9, 2017

Art Cairns Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

5/24/17

Today I celebrate my incarnation Fifty six trips around the sun, carrying a moniker that took decades to like, and I continue, residing more, or sometimes less, inside this soft tent of skin held up…

MelindaMay 24, 2017

Little Altars Everywhere

Gifts and Visitations

The art that blesses my listening hands

Per Annum

STONE LOVIN’

5/24/17

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