by Lesley | Mar 11, 2019 | Beloved, Sound, Uncategorized |
We glide among sleeping aspens rime ice coating branches above our heads, a snow cloud under our skis. Within this gray-sky cathedral all is quiet except the creaking limbs as they dance to the wind’s song. We trek deeper and deeper into the misty woods...
by Lesley | Nov 17, 2018 | Beloved, Devotion, Relationships, Surrender, Uncategorized |
In this house everything is new. Nowhere do I see remnants of the past. The bookshelf that once held legal dramas and murder mysteries, now holds only love poems. And that stove, that brewed witches’ stews of boiled stink-eyes and simmering regrets, now,...
by Lesley | Oct 2, 2018 | courage, Creativity, Devotion, Surrender, Uncategorized |
Let the outer be and through Bhakti create inner harmony.
by Lesley | Sep 18, 2018 | Beloved, courage, Creativity, Uncategorized |
These flash floods tear through and erode one’s homeland. They wash away the topsoil and leave in their wake gullies, ditches and silt. The first impulse— divert the flow off the land, renunciate it, so it won’t cause so much trouble! But then the Divine...
by Lesley | Jun 27, 2018 | courage, love, Sound, Surrender, Uncategorized |
I used to think love blossomed in an edgy brilliance like those thistle flowers too prickly to touch and then surely eaten by night rabbits. But then the Beloved took my hand and flew me into a hurricane the cool blooming chaos of my dreams. All my worst...
