Inner Child Remembers
Before The Tax that adolescence imposes on body, mind, and spirit, probably in that order, there were hearty chunks of time that were some sort of unencumbered. Inner Child remembers discovering the fairies living well in tall flowers near the sandbox. How I loved to honor them, grabbing kid-sized chubby handfuls of sand and running […]
Autographing Autumn
I was walking, first field– verdant, moist , glorious carpet of greens, and the woods edged closer, with a beckoning trail, and then the floor was pine needles, punctuated with wily old roots in no pattern whatsoever. Sky was rarified blue, bluer, an artist’s glad canvas, background perfection to the leaves! Yellow and orange, rusty […]
The Art of Being Present
art by my friend Marina Powdermaker. Find more of her work at https://www.etsy.com/shop/MarinaPowdermaker PAST where I am rereading the same testimonies from the same perspective: accused, accuser, over and over the details wearing deep grooves into the ledger in my mind. It must be truth, Mind says then, because I can’t erase the lines. FUTURE […]
CONSORTIUM
Superguy is a very private sort. I am too, in my way. There are times, though, when things need to be said, out loud and in public. In a time when stress and fear seem like national pastimes, love ought to be celebrated, and shared. Happy Anniversary, Superguy. You make my heart sing. Consortium Up […]
Dots and Dashes
She speaks in code, Bink does, and I endeavor to decipher. She works rather hard, in her neuro-atypical way, at making sense of the world. As her mother and Chief Advocate and Interpreter, it is my dharma to help the world make sense of her. We walk parallel to the others, next to but ever […]
I’m just the messenger
Sometimes, it’s a struggle to write. Lots of sometimes. There’s so much inside that wants to come out! So, picture this: I’m at my desk, all serious-like, trying to hone words into pictures, to allow the pen to move and accept what comes without judgement, and then to be brave and put it out […]
Seeing Through
I am so pleased to share that the poem below was published on the Songs of Eretz Poetry Review yesterday! If you want to see the actual page with the Editor’s choice of photo, and check out Song of Eretz Poetry Review in general, click here: Update: This poem was also published in One Art […]
The Feather and the Leaf
Picture this: it was cold, and I stood among trees. Many, many trees. I looked up, and there they were. A feather and a leaf, floating through the air, not quite up or down but sideways, lifted along by some gusts of coldish wind. Could they be friends, and traveling together? I ruminated on […]
Important Things
Almost 8 am, a Wednesday on a highway east of where most live, a man slowed his big semi to an almost halt. 8 am attracts the big crowds on a weekday, busy highway east of where most live yet west of work, and they, trafficking in Important Stuff To Do, lit up angry […]
Autism Nation
Autism Nation My same different daughter at twenty three years, is riddled with anxiety and complicated fears Loose beads with holes — they should be on a string! — and thunder and lightening, that power failure they may bring My same different daughter moves mountains each day just to get through the hours, OCD in […]