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,...
by Lesley | Dec 13, 2017 | consciousness, food, Relationships, Soul, Spiritual concepts, Surrender |
Oh Cilantro, most benign of herbs, why do so many despise you? Even Rosemary, with her piney sharpness, doesn’t endure such scorn. And Thyme, with all his pungency, fields little grief. Meanwhile Sage, exuding bitterness, rarely invokes a...
