Welcome, Winter!
Solstice 2016 On this, the shortest day of the year in my part of the world, I have a confession to make. I’ve been swirling, these darkening days, around and around like a pile of…
Love letter to the morning
Love Letter to the Morning There is much they don’t know. Our history, the ways we cleaved together and then peeled apart. How you went on without me, blithely, and I mourned you even when…
MelindaSeptember 14, 2016
Between Faith and The Cable News
As far as I can tell, we still revolve, this planet with people sticking out all over it, around the sun. Seems we still burn, and tan, and crops still turn towards something in the…
MelindaAugust 8, 2016
Why Yoga Matters Off the Mat
As I prepare to return to teaching classes next month, I’ve been musing and mulling over new ways to translate the essence of the great big practice that is Yoga. My desire, when I teach,…
MelindaAugust 2, 2016
The Garden of You
This morning, my deck Imagine if you will, dear one, dear one and all, that you are sent to manifest something unique and quite vital to the world. You arrive as rich seeded earth, landing…
MelindaJune 14, 2016
On growing and knowing
wisdom tree The older I get the less I know. I woke with these words in my mouth, and they taste both new and true. My birthday has arrived and this one is significant somehow…
MelindaMay 23, 2016
Still life with Orioles
Vintage artwork by Walter Weber One of the things that goes along with having a special needs child is the kind of connections you make. I know many families with one or even two children…
MelindaMay 19, 2016
MEDITATION
The Sit When I am asked how to meditate There are no words the color of presence No shapes that look like attention I can only tell you what my senses tell me Or how…
MelindaMay 15, 2016
ON SILENCE
Absence of noise It’s not that I enter into this thing called silence. I don't let it in or go out to find it. Silence is my natural state. It’s the vast patience of the…
MelindaApril 28, 2016