by heather | Feb 10, 2013 | Sources of Inspiration
Thanks to Bonnie for the gift of Richard Rohr’s “Falling Upwards” about spirituality for the second half of life. Likely it is great at all ages but seems to have lots of relevance here at what may be just past middle age if we are lucky…
by heather | Jan 18, 2013 | Poems
Sacrifice and renunciation arrived as two teachers speaking in the evening and waking me in the night with a blank slate wiped briefly. Listening to them too early is a fierce denial of blood and flesh and chlorophyll, responding to demands that are heard as a...
by heather | Jan 18, 2013 | Poems
Endings come after and before and after and then there is the space beside the hospital bed between them. And in this space there are words, and none, places of soft longing and no safety and remembering sweetness. So I frame my mouth into a circle to...
by heather | Jan 3, 2013 | Sources of Inspiration
Rendering me inarticulate… wow. See her TED talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter.html
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
Like dolphins nudging injured swimmers I feel all the ways I have been floated into safety, moved by others’ buoyancy into new harbours. No heroic intervention, instinctive caring rises out of play and daily hunt, welcoming whatever visits no matter how...
