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.
Life in the Snow Lane
"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 MailerThe aroma of coffee wafting through the airfinds my olfactory senses and drawsthis winter morning into focus.It’s [...]
I Am Here
"When you find a place where you are, practice begins" ~Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) Rainbow sun dogs frame the occluded sunon this prairie winter morning sky.Wide open spacedemarcated by a distant railroadadvocates forever,is anything forever?The rolling ranch lands speckled in [...]