by Lesley | Apr 5, 2023 | Beloved, Surrender |
It is enough to simply walk the dog on a spring morning when ice cracks beneath your feet and the sun blazes through broken clouds. It’s enough to sit and eat your breakfast, the oats and banana sweet on your tongue. No need for the mind to churn, trying to create...
by Lesley | Jan 25, 2023 | courage, Creativity, Soul |
Read a poem to an audience while your voice and hands shake with fear. Give that coin to the homeless man who will likely buy drugs. Tell your friend you love her even as the air shimmers with awkwardness. Let the wind blow your hair into a rat’s nest, the sun burn...
by Lesley | Dec 31, 2022 | Blog, Devotion, gratitude |
Happy New Year, Thank you for subscribing to The Inner Adventure. As an appreciation for tuning in, I’m offering my brand new audiobook to the first 25 subscribers who respond to this message. If you’re interested, simply REPLY to this email, and I will...
by Lesley | Dec 22, 2022 | consciousness, Creativity, Soul |
Snowflake, glistening in the sun you swirl up, down and around your fellow flakes playing in the rays that will soon kill you with their warmth and brightness. And yet you dance, float above the gravel, flip and turn glint like a spark set on the wind. You spare...
by Lesley | Oct 26, 2022 | Devotion, Surrender |
A flash of tan dissolves into dark earth my dog friend gone, led astray by his nose seeking the scent of a rabbit. I call and call my fear bouncing off ponderosa trunks their sweet vanilla suddenly grown sour. “Lester, Lester come back!” But the forest stays silent—...
