Burning bridgesfar behind, river stillflowing through my mind.Thoughts and dreamsof yesterday, milestones carvedalong the way.Flowers bloomscent fills the air, morning breezeblows through my hair.And I've been gonea long, long timeit's spring timein the country again.Weary soul, forsaken smiles.Distorted heartfrom distant trials.Freedom speaksI must decide; as love unfoldsI cannot hide.Orchid dreamsdispatch the call, waking upabiding fall.And [...]

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality. ~ Ian McEwan Hold me, darling hold me, please just hold me, and never let me go.   Kiss me, hmm just kiss me, with loving lips just bliss me, then tell me that it’s [...]

“The butterfly counts not years but moments and has time enough”. ~ Rabindranath Tagore. Nobel Laureate (1861-1941)  Years ago,feels like moments since,I knocked on a warrior’s door.  Breaching your fortified heart, letting this outsider in,  your sacred love oozing out,yielding to promise.   Unfolding  herstory of challenges unforeseen, forbidding realities, beyond comprehension.   Compromised crossing over the Battle River, soul searing [...]

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same." ~ Norman MailerFor some of us it seems the process of letting goleaves claw marks on the walls of the soul.And yet,letting go…it’s all so simple really. Yielding to those doors [...]