by Lesley | Nov 29, 2017 | hiking, karma, materialsim, Relationships, vanity |
She stands with her back to the cliff edge camera poised arm’s length capturing the indigo sky and craggy canyon below. She moves her head into the frame, poses just right eyes wide to disguise an intruding brow, daring smile to impress friends. Tilting...
by Lesley | Nov 1, 2017 | courage, Creativity, Devotion, karma, Surrender |
You walk along the road, sun warm on your cheeks love sparkling in your eyes, as you know where you’re going. From a side street that handsome one with chocolate brown eyes and lips made for kissing gestures you over, envelops you in a hug. This is the...
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 | May 3, 2017 | Beloved, courage, Creativity, Forgiveness, karma, Soul, Surrender |
Out of seemingly nowhere it comes a dust devil racing across the desert swirling up an image from a week, a month— ten, twenty, thirty years ago. It’s suddenly alive, a fighting bull breathing fire: the thing your mate or child or mother said or did or didn’t...
by Lesley | Aug 3, 2016 | Beloved, courage, journey, karma, Soul, Sound, Surrender |
When the rain pours down onto my shoulders and hair I run for cover. But in this desert there is no shelter except for a scrawny piñon or juniper tree. I have no choice but to let the rain drench my t-shirt and shorts, soak into my skin and my very bones....
by Lesley | Jun 29, 2016 | Beloved, bliss, courage, Creativity, Devotion, karma, Soul, Sound, Surrender |
You smell it on the breeze sweet scent of wet piñon and red dust blowing off an advancing thunderhead. When the towering anvil arrives it casts bruised shadows, pelts all with frozen rain and thunders into your core. You call on the Beloved hold steady...
