by Lesley | Feb 9, 2026 | courage, Creativity, Surrender |
This world is a fashion show. You put on that dress, that suit, and strut down the runway, Fully believing the costume is you, is truth, but over time that style you so invest in becomes silly, past tense, like those 1980s shoulder pads you only laugh at today. Then...
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 | Sep 23, 2025 | Creativity, Devotion, Surrender |
Dear One, Help me live from this place of knowing the perfection of all. That veteran along the road with the face tattoos and the white dog, Help me know that he is right where he is meant to be. And that woman on the Pickleball court who sheds negativity, Help me...
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 | 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...
