Liberty or Madness
It takes courage to be shadow; to go mad in a world bent from being brave. I drank. Like Alice used drugs to shrink myself to fit into the tiny box marked good. I trusted when doctors said the blue...
View ArticleSpring Bee Haiku
~ blackberry blossoms bear boodle bird feeders black fly bites ~ Filed under: Poetry Tagged: Bee, BlackBerry, Haiku, Honey Bee, poetry, Spring
View ArticleYou’re so pretty. When you smile.
For the last few years I’ve been focused on listening to what my body is telling me about how I am feeling. Recovering from ruptured disks I made a point to slow my body and my mind way down. In …...
View ArticleMissing, but in Action.
Hi Everyone! So anyone who’s been reading my blog for the last four months knows that my husband [Al] and I have been building our own house [a cabin actually], for the last few years. This last week...
View ArticleFrom Baby Dolls to Barbie Brawls
My father’s aunt made a living sewing Barbie clothes. When my parents took us to visit her daughter Kelly and I used to spend hours role-playing with her Barbie dolls. She had several, including Tutti,...
View ArticleBoyfriends and Foster Families
For years I begged my mother to let me go live in a foster home. Defeated by her determination that my emotional reactions to the alcoholic insanity, the life threatening violence in our house was a...
View ArticleRainy Haiku
~ sky crying sunshine solar lamps dull growing gardens gulp ~ Filed under: Poetry Tagged: Arts, Garden, Haiku, Home and Garden, Meditation, Music, poetry, Rain
View ArticleThe Body the Soul and a Snowflake
I recently read The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto. This is the second book of his I’ve absorbed into my heartmind. Believing water to be sentient, he and other researchers have spent over a...
View Article__picture it & write
Reblogged from ermiliablog: I urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or...
View ArticleA Faerie is Born
This airy faerie piece was inspired by picture it & write prompt #29. ~ Pregnant moon belly lifts dancing orbs whisper remember your wings. Warm star fingers raise awareness urge inspiring birth...
View ArticleRemembering Warmth and Norway
While we lived in California Julaften [Christmas Eve] was spent at my dad’s parent’s house. Everyone got dressed up. Us girls wore dresses and patent leather shoes mom bought just for the occasion. I...
View ArticleHoly Shit it’s Christmas Eve
After we moved to Utah when I was nine Christmas Eve was never the same. Our family went to my father’s aunt Edna and Uncle Pete’s house but we didn’t dress up. There was nothing special about being...
View ArticleNo Nostalgia November
School was out for Thanksgiving. Most the kids in the neighborhood were playing outside. Many of them riding their bikes up and down the sidewalks. I liked playing by myself most of the time and much...
View ArticleLightning Bug Love Haiku
~ Firefly seduction Amorous light Ushers summertime in. ~ Filed under: Poetry Tagged: Fireflies, Haiku, Love, Mating, Owl City, Sex, Summertime
View ArticleReincarnation
This video was to interesting to pass up. Filed under: Random Tagged: Arts, Body Mind Spirit, Hosting, Reincarnation, Religion & Spirituality, Soul, Television
View ArticleInspiration with Beautiful Flower Photographs! ~a new collection offered by...
Reblogged from Linda Willows: I had a wonderful time putting together this beautiful collection of Flower Photographs for you. Most photos are by the gifted Photographer, Ken Oshawa. I get all dreamy...
View ArticleAss-squared [assuming assumptions are true].
Assumption: The act of taking for granted or supposing. The act of taking to or upon oneself. The act of taking possession of something: the assumption of power. Arrogance; presumption. Today I’m...
View ArticleLove and Marriage Reunites our Family
I’m happy you are all here to witness, read, share with me, and comment on my thoughts, feelings and experiences. I didn’t want to disappear for a couple of weeks without an explanation, so todays...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Being Present
Anna and I Time to get the oars rowing through the fog of unprocessed experiences. Search for the light that’s trying to break through. Listen for the music that inspires the images waiting to emerge....
View ArticleDancing with a Dragonfly Mystic
Luminous dragons fly. Mystic dancer skitters across water; taps, her wand tickles, Sentient mirror transforming into stars. Filed under: Poetry Tagged: art, Dance, dance with dragons, Dragon, Dragon...
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