Where do you find yourself when your world screams, though all around you, a deafening silence echoes a haunting refrain? Even the darkest night, with sparkling starry stories, follows another day in seeming ignorance, and the circle of life keeps spinning, heeding not your pain. I remember (without the debilitating weariness, body, mind and heart-wrenching … More Life Happens . . . so does Voyaging into My Heart
Before I was born,in a space beyond time as we know it, I roam among trees.Alpine meadows, in the mountain shadows,calling my spirit,lead the way to cascading waterfalls.Before I was born, in an expanse where eternity breathes,I deeply inhale.Winds, whispering through vast mountains valleys,lifting me upwardshow me peaks of inspiration, stillness.Before I was born,in realms … More Life Happens . . . Before I Was Born
In the space between the realms of light and dark, fire and ember, truth and hope fill my heart. … More Life Happens . . . so does the Space Between
Figuratively and literally, begins a new day in this widow’s life. Feeling my compass arrow directionally challenging me, its pointer, symbolic of my heart and mind, continually spins with difficulty as my guiding north star loses sight for future planning during this phase of my contemplative voyage, single life. … More Life Happens . . . so do Beginnings
Life happens all the time.
Visions and dreams
Sometimes it seems
Without reason or rhyme. … More Life Happens … so does A Contemporary Ballad of the Contemplative Voyager
“You got it in you,” “You can be happy,” “I want you to be happy,” and “I am happy you are happy,” bring to remembrance another voice that encouragingly texts, “You’ve got this.” … More Life Happens . . . so do Aw-ha! Moments
My life’s happenings prompt so many scriptural musings as I struggle in mortality. … More Life Happens . . . so do Rooftops
Under the mystifying allure of moonlight’s enchantment surrounded by a myriad of stars penetrating the looming blackness, I float back in time, carried on whitecaps and shadows. … More Life Happens . . . so do Landscapes
Trees swiftly sway, each needled evergreen branch furiously waving under nature’s wind-driven fury while darkening, grey skies streaked with faint angry, reddish highlights, forecast the coming storm. … More Life Happens . . . so do Storms
With the evening shadows, she feels it first, an intensity swelling, forcefully lifting the turquoise crystalline base over and around her, a giant monster with hollow innards, holding her tight within its grasp. . . .The roaring pierces her ears as the wave curls in frothy white majestic finale. . ..Tomorrow waits. Life happens…so do waves. … More Life Happens . . . so do Waves
How do you inhale the warm, aromatic offering for soul-filled nourishment? Do you nibble at the edges, cautiously considering your worth or ability to partake such a delectable treat or, with gratitude accept the moments that bring remembrance and a glimpse into what lies ahead? Choices…What am I to do now? …Gingerbread!! … More Life Happens . . . so does Gingerbread
When you fall on your knees at the end of your path to hold onto what remains, where do you find the strength to rise and take a step into the unknown? … More Life Happens . . . so does “What am I to do now?”
Sometimes the known path abruptly terminates, leads to sandy shores, or wraps itself around an island’s perimeter leaving one revisiting the same place indefinitely. Cutting through bush to the opposite side simply brings one to the same circular path, possibly encountering an unwelcome obstacles in this deserted paradise. How, why, where does one start their … More Life Happens . . . so do Choices
