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.
This Boomerang Love
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills [...]
Jayanti Jess
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it". ~ Buddha Jayanti; my Jess, dreamer of dreams, dreamy eyes, dreamy smile, heart chock-full of dreams, splendid soul with purpose, visions of a [...]
Idle No More
"The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference." Clearly the Idle No More movement is a very multifaceted situation that is spawning many heated and often dogmatic opinions. True to the cess pool that politics can be, some folks hang on [...]
A Spirit Undaunted
“We imagine we know our children, but they too are a vast dark continent, in which the glow of city lights here and there lets us, know we are over land, but little else.” ~ David Gilmour “The Perfect Order [...]
Orchid Dreams
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 [...]
We Are One
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 [...]