by Lesley | Feb 25, 2020 | Beloved, Devotion, Surrender, Uncategorized |
It starts when one is young and even long before the searching, the yearning for that moment when your mother’s eyes alight on you, or your father’s gaze snaps into focus with you as its target. Two universes connect, slide together, magnet and iron. The chest...
by Lesley | Aug 28, 2019 | consciousness, courage, Devotion, Soul, Surrender, Uncategorized |
I’m excited to let you know that my new book, All Is Love, has arrived. It is a compilation of stories, written in poetry and essay form, as well as a few photos. These stories arose from my day-to-day experience of living with and doing my best to honor the true...
by Lesley | Jun 27, 2018 | courage, love, Sound, Surrender, Uncategorized |
I used to think love blossomed in an edgy brilliance like those thistle flowers too prickly to touch and then surely eaten by night rabbits. But then the Beloved took my hand and flew me into a hurricane the cool blooming chaos of my dreams. All my worst...
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...
by Lesley | Dec 27, 2016 | Beloved, consciousness, courage, Devotion, materialsim, Soul, Sound |
We think it is so solid, this gingerbread house with its cookie siding, chocolate wafer roof and frosting accents, when really it is only butter, sugar and spice. The walls we try to lean on crumble away with slight pressure or melt to mush in a glass of milk....
