California Chronicles: Part 2
I sat there two days into the workshop, with smoke snaking its way high and low around us on the california coastline, the landscape having become the silent bearer of […]
Tag Archives: loneliness
Marking Time
I sat there at my wooden desk last Friday morning, long slow drawl of summer slightly audible in mid-July, as if it too was asking me in, inviting my body to […]
And then time?
And then time? It expanded open enough between 12:45pm as I sat at the Public Garden Swan Pond feeling an effervescent fullness in my heart after teaching and 1:50pm as […]
Roads
As I drove over the roads that led me to the workshop the next day, my tires were hugging the curve of the road underneath an openness of sea, sky, […]
We Are One {Poetry}
I dreamt that we were boundaried enough that we didn’t spill ourselves so far over, suffocate each other’s sense of purpose, passion and peace. That we remained open enough for […]
All these many moments
And there were, all these many moments, like the midst of winter with leafless trees and stark grey concrete, when loneliness felt endless and I wondered if this life had […]
How to Be Alone
“We rise in feathers and wax, child.” ~Vicktor Taiwo
Surrender & Flow
“Not all those who wander are lost.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien
A Writer’s Ecstasy {Poetry}
“You are the wings. Your heart knows the words. Write. Lay them down on the page.” ~LAO
Moving through
“in the midst of winter,
I found there was,
within me,
an invincible summer.” ~Albert Camus
Lindsey O'Neill 