This Moment in Grief: The Poetry of Being Present for What Is

Dear friends, In recently offering This Moment in Grief: The Poetry of Being Present for What Is, a 3-session workshop series through OLLI, participants explored how to engage with grief in meaningful, genuine ways with themselves and with each other. It showed me the gifts I’ve cultivated have found a voice in service of honoring aging,…

I’m not so good at doing two things at once

Yet my mind pushes the envelope Niggling at me Reminding me to send this text or call that one While I’m sitting here doing this   Sitting still even for moments Finding some quiet in the middle Of so much muck in this world It’s like   Walking along a thin line A thin place…

Alchemized

For Will on the 2nd anniversary of your dying and death   This morning I feel what it is When pestle is at work   The death of what was Into a finer powder of what is   Seed, bud, flower, leaves and roots Even the aroma of you   The whole plant The scent…