Category Archives: inspirational

Chapel Confession

Posted on October 6, 2018 by geniecan

I can hear the clamoring of whoever entered the chapel behind me, after I’ve settled in and seeking my silence. Out of the corner of my eye, I see part of a walker, the source of interruption to my false … Continue reading →

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Cactus Garden and Rose Garden

Posted on August 31, 2018 by geniecan

CACTUS GARDEN Balboa Park, San Diego, Ca Carrying their thorns proudly in ways we don’t think of, they reach tall, arching strong knowing each prickly spear each stay-away-from-me spike is part of who they are. Their blooming will arrive in … Continue reading →

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Seen and Not Heard In the Park

Posted on August 1, 2018 by geniecan

Dirty, disabled and abandoned they poked out from a pile of dusty pine needles useless and for some nonsensical reason, I placed them in a zip lock bag, as if they were a fragile cocoon about to become a flying … Continue reading →

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Purging

Posted on July 9, 2018 by geniecan

Mixing in the muck of memory debris she sorts through feelings giving them names frames them in new ways though they still weigh heavy with silence like sunken skipping stones seeking new homes and the chance to play another day … Continue reading →

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Clyde’s Grief

Posted on July 6, 2018 by geniecan

He doesn’t cry, or talk it out but sometimes writes, when feelings are too deep to speak and tears too dammed to spill His mother died, he did not cry and his pen could find no words but he worked … Continue reading →

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Chime Muse

Posted on June 27, 2018 by geniecan

If it weren’t for this moment of quiet, resting in my “Lady’s Lair” I would miss hearing chimes caught in the breeze outside this upstairs window drifting long airy melodies into mid-day blue sky with no one to care or … Continue reading →

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Recovery Psalm

Posted on March 29, 2018 by geniecan

Holy beam of light too bright for mortal eyes to see You pierce the darkness of my granite walls splitting fears into river rocks mere stepping stones Beneath the water of cast off tears, pebbles shine sand becomes rainbow glass … Continue reading →

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Beneath the Thorns She stands at the margins feeling foreign not belonging longing for a place among the ones who claim they’re ‘in’ Who will reach for her? see her goodness masked by fear make a place for her to grow that she may one day know a love that has no boundaries. Perhaps the ones who only see her thorns and pull away their blinded arms have not yet learned that love includes the ones along the margins the rose beneath the thorns

Posted on February 20, 2018 by geniecan

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A Thin Place

Posted on August 17, 2017 by geniecan

There is a Celtic saying that heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in the ‘thin places’ that distance is even smaller. Dark damp humus below the emerald canopy of ancient redwood giants cushions steps with silence Beams … Continue reading →

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Mary’s Music

Posted on July 13, 2017 by geniecan

I learned recently that 86 year old Mary from my creative writing class was an accomplished pianist. None of us in class knew she even played the piano. Mary has been deaf for 10 years and had stopped playing. It … Continue reading →

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