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Category Archives: musings
Chapel Confession
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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Tagged chapel humor, false piety, humility, kindness, self-forgiveness
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Seen and Not Heard In the Park
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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Tagged fun, intrigue, mystery, purpose, saving stuff
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Purging
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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Tagged feelings, memories, re- framing
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Clyde’s Grief
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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Tagged coping with loss, death, emotional pain, grief
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Chime Muse
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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Tagged chimes, music, quiet, writing muse
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Recovery Psalm
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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Tagged a prayer, encouragement, faith, recovery
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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
She stands at the margins feeling foreign, not belonging….who will reach for her Continue reading
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Tagged hope; fear; marginal, lonliness, love, relationships
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A Thin Place
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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Tagged cathedral, forest, nature, redwoods
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No Thing Ordinary 