Spirituality

On Turkeys and Traffic and TIme

I'm taking a break from promoting my new book this morning to extoll the power of a pause. We humans do tend to plow into the middle of things in our self-important haste to get…

MelindaOctober 23, 2025

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When Your Dragonfly Grew

My friend, the artist Marina Powdermaker, would have turned 64 next week. I can't quite believe it's been 5 years since she left. It is for us—those left living—to honor our beloved dead by telling…

MelindaAugust 22, 2025

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When I am Ash

To hear me read this post, click below. Hello you! I’ve had a new poem published in the inaugural issue of Harrow House Journal. This was one of the rare pieces that arrived almost completely…

MelindaJuly 2, 2025

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Hello, dear reader, and happy mid-June to you. I’m popping in to say my first full-length poetry collection is scheduled for publication this fall. No exact date yet, but I’ll send out an update when…

MelindaJune 8, 2025

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This Motley, Sublime Life

Weary and Awed a collection of parts of the holy whole One of my favorite songs is “All This Joy” by John Denver. If you’ve never heard it or it has been a while, here’s…

MelindaMay 31, 2025

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Woman, Circle, Poem

Late May greetings! I’ve just had two poems published in a lovely new online magazine, “Soul Poetry, Prose and Art”. Here’s the link if you’d like to check out the magazine. It's filled with…

MelindaMay 22, 2025

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When God is a Bird

This one is for the mothers. When God is a Bird The feeders out back bring more color this month— goldfinches blossoming from marsh-like greeny gray to forsythia yellow, a red-winged blackbird flashing…

MelindaMay 11, 2025

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Through the Window

Through the Window New buds adorn the ratty something-or-other bush. Does it mind being unnamed? No, comes the echo of an answer. My life outside your window does not revolve around what you might call…

MelindaApril 21, 2025

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Another Drawing Talks to Me

I am recovering nicely from December foot surgery. Even as I am able to do more, the little colored pencil drawings I made when I was entirely couch-bound continue to talk to me. Perhaps it…

MelindaFebruary 11, 2025

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Up and Out

Up and Out More garrulous gazing at the navel of the world. It was morning, one of a long string of them spent on the couch, post-surgical leg consistently elevated. My eyes lifted to my…

MelindaJanuary 6, 2025

When Your Dragonfly Grew

When I am Ash

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