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Cats Death and Dying Family Healing Hope Love Meditation Mindfulness Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

All by way of saying…

To hear me read this, click below: This poem was published last week in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, a beautiful publication available here: Listen Sharing my home with four-legged Zen masters— liquid beings…

MelindaOctober 22, 2024

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 Cats Death and Dying Love Writing

Collateral Sorrow

Art by Marina Powdermaker It’s been a time of times, a steady landslide of uncertainties. Yes, the Covid, the shutdown. Yes, Bink and so many other adults with disabilities being home all day every day…

MelindaMay 20, 2020

Cats Love Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Hmmm. I thought I put me down right there

Here is Where All day the wind blew the trees against the house, and my old ears heard the hearty breeze as a roaring river, the kind that swells in spring, the kind that swallows…

MelindaMay 9, 2019

Cats Family Spirituality Writing

It’s a Good Thing

The View from Here Hello from my couch, where I’ve been planted for the majority of my waking hours for the past twenty five days. Who’s counting? I sure am. I’ve been following doctor’s orders…

MelindaJanuary 3, 2018

Cats Family

Cat Calls

for Super Guy 4 am, the favored time for felines in this house; to dance a catty jig across my soft belly, scale the cliff your side-sleeping body makes as it juts, dark and…

MelindaFebruary 20, 2017

Cats Spirituality

CAThartic

Leroy and Olive, Ruby looking on “Comes a time, “ said the first cat, when you can decide to be different than you were. You can stop scratching at the window, scheming to find…

MelindaDecember 29, 2016

Little Altars Everywhere

Collateral Sorrow

Hmmm. I thought I put me down right there

It’s a Good Thing

Cat Calls

CAThartic

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