by Lesley | Dec 16, 2020 | bliss, Creativity, Soul, Surrender |
In this desert when snow falls at dawn my being surrenders to the pristine and sparkly white. I rush into the storm and let the flakes kiss my cheeks and eyelashes, the luminosity fill my heart. Thrilled, I carry this light into the bedroom where I leap on the...
by Lesley | Feb 14, 2018 | Beloved, bliss, courage, Creativity, Devotion, eternity, Surrender, travel |
How would I ever get home if not for this road with all its potholes? Sometimes I scream in the dark when my headlights aren’t bright enough to light the way. Or when fog and icy rain lead me to follow random taillights into ditches and even over cliffs....
by Lesley | Jan 2, 2018 | Beloved, bliss, child, courage, gratitude, reincarnation, Soul |
I thumb through the photo album. There I am in at age six wearing a Sunday plaid suit. Defiant, I dart my tongue at the camera. In high school, a pudgy face and body from boarding school starch, I slouch in the Y of a tree. In college, tan, golden hair,...
by Lesley | Oct 18, 2017 | Beloved, bliss, courage, health, karma, Relationships, Soul, Surrender |
My mate’s head, cheek and teeth sear with lightning pain. His voice grows pale, movements like taffy, a hunted look in his eyes. This man who lifts his loved ones off the ground in enthusiastic hugs now fragile as a dragonfly wing. Immediately my mind...
by Lesley | Oct 4, 2017 | bliss, consciousness, love, Sound, Surrender |
Like lovers attracted by forces beyond their control the sun and moon magnetize. As they merge, the dusky moon overlaps the persimmon sun— a bite from an apple. Then darkness— all goes quiet, the robins silent the squirrels still. Totality. ...
by Lesley | Apr 5, 2017 | Beloved, bliss, child, courage, Devotion, Soul, Surrender |
I say goodbye to a doll who wears a cotton dress and a pine-green coat her hair cut in one spot down to the roots, my 8-year-old attempt at being a hairdresser. I also wave farewell to a teddy bear who I used hold in the night. He once played music but...