Poetry, storytelling and song writing are members of the same family. I have a deep appreciation for the literary arts and believe that creative writing whatever its form, render a fleeting glimpse, a snippet of insight into the author’s inner world. To live an unexamined life is our greatest travesty and consequently we cannot grow as we are intended to without putting ourselves under a compassionate lens of scrutiny. Writing can do this by giving us a strategy to crystallize those fleeting thoughts and emotions that so often elude clarity and self knowing. Journaling, writing poetry can be a catharsis in this process leading to a new awareness of whom and what we are, warts and all. The journey of self discovery ultimately opens the door to the spiritual growth and evolution we so richly deserve.
Dancing Between the Raindrops
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Running through our songs of rain with fears that we might melt, camouflaged emotions, shadows that we’ve felt. [...]
Love Letter to Pain
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering” ~ Ben Okri Dormant in perfection sleep the flawed and mottled seeds of [...]
Love Among the Ruins
"The most valuable form of service is to fully awaken to who you are, and then live that awakening in every moment." ~ Adyashanti When life disintegrates before my unbelieving eyes, when viable options dry up in a sizzle, [...]
Minding the Mirage
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude" ~ Denis Waitley In a world of black and white infused with spellbinding, exhilarating, yet [...]
Connecting the Dots
"The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Causality is the relationship between an event (the cause) and a second event (the [...]
An Empowered Existence
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ Khalil Gibran Slanted windswept rain, magnificent diamonds, illuminated by one defiant sun, superbly soak, receptive forests with stoic [...]