my heart, like a sea anemone closes up when it is touched (even softly) it soon reopens ready to be touched again and so it goes
This is how you change when you go to the orchard where the heart opens: you become fragrance and the light that burning oil gives off, long strands of grieving hair, lion and at the same time, gazelle. You’re walking alone without feet, as riverwater does. The taste of a wine that is bitter and…
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine….
Today, I visited my daughter’s school to attend the Martin Luther King, Jr. Assembly. Several wonderful groups from the school performed. We heard his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, pieces of “I have a dream” as well as hearing some wonderful music. While one group performed to the song “I have a dream” by will.i.am, I…
rosemary for remembrance roots loose and untangled ready to be planted in fertile soil bringing forth what came before and creating something new
Making Love Originally uploaded by chi liu. I saw this on flickr and decided it must be seen! How amazing is this image of two dragonflies making love???!!??? I cannot contain my exuberance. Life is so exquisitely beautiful, isn’t it?