Oh friends, stand firm.  When the world spins, like Wizard of Oz, taking us from the land that we love. When lives fall, bend over like the Leaning Tower, and things we have held onto for so many years, crumble from lack of strength. Hold fast. When there are rumors of blasts, attacks and Giants in […]

Two teeth yanked from her mouth. Last time, it was five. I grab an ice pack, bring it to my adult daughter who is staying with us, post surgery. I expect pain, suffering, anguish from the gaping holes left in her mouth, where her pearly whites were taken. In my experience, any hole, loss, surgery leaving […]

I see you… In the shadows of every silent cry. In the ache of every broken heart. In the pain of every erupting thought… I see you… With every labor of love. Every time you rise and sacrifice your wants. Every moment you sulk in the pain of it all… I see you… I see you […]

I drove by it again today. The 7-11 I drove by a week ago; at almost dark. Cars were slowing. One car was stopped diagonally on the road, in the opposite direction. A few people were gathering and I wondered if they were picketing? I looked to my left, rolled my window down, and saw a […]

Our white-bearded neighbor, lit up the edges of his five-acre parcel with Christmas tree lights. Every garden edge, gravel path, grass lining….lights. It started a few years ago, when his wife died. My husband asked, “Why? Why this year, when we have lived here a dozen years, and not once has our road, usually dark with […]

The dark skies wrap around the light inside my window. Water outside splashing against the glass, reminding me of the womb of rememberance… A place that has come to pass, and is coming to pass again. The waves of hardship dash against us, against everything that can be shaken, and then some. The mighty fall, the […]