by Lesley | Mar 4, 2025 | Beloved, bliss, Creativity, Devotion |
The world seems to be crumbling alliances disappearing the few grabbing power the many paying the price with their sweat and blood. Mind yells, “Charge into the fray, change it all, protect freedom!” Soul knows differently. It sees the true dictator within....
by Lesley | Dec 10, 2024 | Creativity, Devotion, Surrender |
It starts as a quiet whisper a little voice telling me how I’ve been wronged. I cock my head to listen, and the words quicken, anxious like a bird’s heartbeat in the palm. Soon, I am seduced into a hurricane of thoughts. They rush and swirl, twirl me around until I’m...
by Lesley | Oct 28, 2024 | courage, Creativity, Devotion, Surrender |
Recently, after reading a book about how to make our planet sustainable, I set a matrix to volunteer some of my writing to that cause. Within a few weeks, a call came in from a nonprofit asking me to create a film script to help save some tropical rainforest. I...
by Lesley | Jul 16, 2024 | Beloved, Devotion, Surrender |
In this forest of dancing trees, haunting sounds slip among waving branches. Cries and groans chill the air as though someone is screaming from pain. I crane my head this way and that trying to find the injured rabbit, lost fawn or maybe a trapped raccoon. Soon I see...
by Lesley | Oct 26, 2022 | Devotion, Surrender |
A flash of tan dissolves into dark earth my dog friend gone, led astray by his nose seeking the scent of a rabbit. I call and call my fear bouncing off ponderosa trunks their sweet vanilla suddenly grown sour. “Lester, Lester come back!” But the forest stays silent—...
