Beach Retreat
Beach Poem, Oct. 2005 Women walking Sitting talking Laughing crying over Living and dying Running sunning Having funning Daring dreaming …
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A Pill for Everything
I’ve just written a column discussing some of the ideas in this piece–it will be published next week and I’ll …
Where am I going?
The following Haiku poems were written in response to a reading by Carol Henderson at a recent writing retreat. The …
IHOP and the Octopus
Thursday, March 28, 2002 found our family at IHOP in Charlotte to eat with our dear friends Jerel and Susan …
Apollo’s Chariot
This is the first time that the anniversary of Wes, Andy, and Ryan’s deaths has “lined up” with the lunar …
An Invocation…
Loving Father, Nurturing Mother, We ask your presence with us at this hour. We celebrate today our observance of New …
Shouted prayer
My prayers sometimes pause in the snatches of rainbow light that play upon the wall, the refrigerator, the floor, as …
YOLO
I first heard the term YOLO – acronym for You Only Live Once – last fall as my worship planning …
fulfilling a sacred contract
Howard Thurman, theologian and Harvard professor, said, “There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is, …
A place that no longer is
Prompt: Write about a place that no longer is April 22, 2007 I finally framed that little snapshot that had …
Talking to Grief: an acrostic poem
Peggy Clover May 5, 2005 Tell me, Grieving Heart, how do I live now? Agonizingly alone, aloof, shattered Longing for …
Collage
Ginkgo leaves and Christmas trees Green cicadas and fallen leaves Fallen lives, fallen hopes Tales more tragic than the soapiest …
Retreat
The mountains – quiet, peaceful solitude. Rhododendron, ferns, thistles, outcroppings of rocks, tops of trees swaying in the breeze, split …
The Thorn
I was over at the Cancer Center yesterday. While waiting in the lobby, I glanced through a scrapbook which was …
Hope and A Place That No Longer Is
This piece was written April 22, 2007 to a prompt at a weekend retreat: Write about a place that no longer …
Random thoughts and comments and writings
What does grief look like? Grief is like the crazy aunt or befuddled uncle that the family tolerates and knows …
Raining Down
Tonight the rain is pouring down on the deck outside my home’s office window. There’s a guest in the living …
A Place That No Longer Is
From a prompt given by Carol at a spring mountain retreat in Roaring Gap Home…my first one…it’s still there…yet it is …
What We Tell Others . . . and More
I just came across this post about the death of a child on the Brevity Blog and wanted to share …
CRAZY
Cameron stared at me out of huge brown eyes, magnified by little round glasses with thick lenses. His mouth was …
Farther Along 