by Lesley | Feb 25, 2020 | Beloved, Devotion, Surrender, Uncategorized |
It starts when one is young and even long before the searching, the yearning for that moment when your mother’s eyes alight on you, or your father’s gaze snaps into focus with you as its target. Two universes connect, slide together, magnet and iron. The chest...
by Lesley | Aug 14, 2019 | Beloved, courage, Surrender, Uncategorized |
I nearly sit on the yellow moth speckled with gray that rests on the patio chair. Sadly, it crawls across the metal, wobbling with its single wing. Up close I see the dark spot where the second wing once hung. Oh you poor flightless soul. No longer will...
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 | 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 | Aug 1, 2018 | Beloved, Sound, Surrender, Uncategorized |
The lizard limps down the middle of the dirt road. I stop the car, climb out, herd him to the side. He only perseveres back to the center, with a three-legged limp, right front leg held high. Heart screams, no, poor baby! He should be lifted on all fours...
