Blog Archive – Page 8 – Melinda Coppola

Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

A Little Flower

“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Hello, First, here's…

MelindaMarch 25, 2022

Love Mindfulness Nature Spirituality

I Wish You Knew

In the Garden Imagine if you will, dear one, dear one and all, that you are sent to manifest something unique and quite vital to the world. You arrive as rich seeded earth, landing…

MelindaJanuary 17, 2022

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Uncategorized

Folliculi, Follicula

TEND and SAVOR “Why the hair is attached to the head it will not come out please respond to me in a video.” These were the first words Bink communicated to me today, shortly after…

MelindaJanuary 10, 2022

Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Saved

It is a blessing to find those things that save us in small ways. At the checkout counter a teenaged boy offered to carry groceries for an old couple. They said yes, and I…

MelindaJanuary 6, 2022

Mindfulness Nature Poem Spirituality Writing

Everything is a Sign

Of all the offerings, a thousand possible signs, the Spirit Messengers chose poop. A pile of it, excrement of vague animal origins, arranged in a circle too perfect for random, dead center on my front…

MelindaJanuary 4, 2022

Death and Dying Family Love Meditation Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Integration

It has been almost a month since my mother passed. It wasn’t unexpected. She was old and ill and tired. She wanted to go, was impatient with the way those final months seemed to drag…

MelindaNovember 16, 2021

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Headway Happening Here

Smile Last time it was Tuesday, six months and four days ago. The incredible Dr. S managed a first— pedaling the chair back just a bit, your face more accessible, sunglasses shielding your eyes from…

MelindaSeptember 25, 2021

Autism Death and Dying Family Love Mindfulness Nature Parenting Spirituality

WALKING HER HOME

Adrift. That’s the word that floated into my teary vision as I sat in my car outside the facility my mother has resided in for the past seven years. These after-visit pauses have become part…

MelindaAugust 30, 2021

Autism Bink Family Love Mindfulness Parenting Spirituality Writing

What Do You Know?

What do we know for sure? I find myself wondering, lately, if we mostly hold the beliefs that suit our ease. For some, self-contempt can provide a kind of familiarity which becomes belief. For others,…

MelindaJuly 12, 2021

Death and Dying Love Meditation Mindfulness Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Conversations with a Ghost

A Dead Friend Speaks Almost a year into my exit from flesh, what we call, when embodied, death, You talk to me, wonder if I help when you struggle and worry, soothe when you rage…

MelindaJune 15, 2021