by Lesley | Jan 7, 2026 | Creativity, Relationships, Sound, Surrender |
My cat, Arjuna, is aging out. Her kidneys now weak, she has started her mortal decline. Mind wants to call it death. Emotions want to wail and cry (which I did for bit). Both could easily lapse into a sad lethargy where all is lost. However, the Beloved shows me a...
by Lesley | Jul 2, 2025 | courage, Devotion, Relationships, Surrender |
“You’re coming to the demonstration, right?’ my close friend asks me. “Yes,” I say, a note of reluctance in my voice. In the coming days, I question the notion of attending the political rally that my friend is organizing. I would like to support her creation, and she...
by Lesley | Jun 10, 2025 | courage, Relationships, Surrender |
On the way home from the new vet, hours to go, I drive into a storm. It’s like a curtain I glide through into a world of chaos. Rain pounds, hail bounces, cars, bumper to bumper, blink their emergency flashers. In my head swirls the vet’s cautioned voice, “May be...
by Lesley | May 26, 2025 | Creativity, Relationships, Surrender |
I’m on the court, a ball flying toward me. It bounces, and I swing my paddle, making contact. The ball arcs over the net and lands near the baseline, and I rush forward. Bam, bam, bam, it zooms back and forth…until it bounces out of my reach, and I lose the point. An...
by Lesley | Jan 1, 2020 | Creativity, Relationships, Surrender, Uncategorized |
Spring I search Zillow for a house or apartment. Each day, I buzz through the ads. I must move out of my new home. But in my morning practice I melt into the ocean float on gentle waves. Back on land my mind becomes certain again. After living alone for...
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,...
