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Family Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Singing Writing

When all this is over…

WHEN THIS IS OVER Bring bread, chewy and warm, wrapped in that red checkered tablecloth that always sings picnic, which is short for happy family, easy friendships, peace and plenty in our town state country…

MelindaApril 20, 2020

Family Love Meditation Mindfulness Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Singing Spirituality Writing

Prospecting for Grace

Praise The faithful sun, generously stirring energies of Earth and atmosphere, coaxing every green thing towards the rising song of spring. Parents walking with their children outside, smiling and laughing, nodding at neighbors out washing…

MelindaMarch 25, 2020

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

The Uninvited Guests

What a time! We are seeing and hearing wide ranging effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on, it seems, every populated part of our planet. In our corner of the world, Bink's autism and accompanying dependence…

MelindaMarch 18, 2020

Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Writing

Communicable

PROPAGATION I’ve taken to humming in the produce section while caressing the plums, sneaking sniffs of the cilantro, eyeing the lemons, audacious in their yellowry. It’s a low, soothing thing, the thrum of air over…

MelindaMarch 12, 2020

Autism Bink Family Love Mindfulness Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Women's Issues Writing

Harmonious Discord

This morning I walked early, mismatched garments layered to repel a cold, spitting rain. I’d pushed his baseball cap down hard over the knitted ear band I bought to share with her, which she most…

MelindaMarch 5, 2020

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Writing

Brown Girl Hair Has Left the Building

Bink loves girl hair. For the uninitiated, this translates to long straight hair hanging down, on a female of any age. Preferably, the hair should be visible equally on the right and left sides of…

MelindaJanuary 16, 2020

Love Mindfulness Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Imagine the Harvest

Mercy What if we had drills, not just for disasters, fires and hurricanes, not just for active school shooters and any possible terrorisms both foreign and domestic, what if we had rigorous training in kindnesses:…

MelindaNovember 27, 2019

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Writing

My Daughter, the Foodie

The Pies by Bink Bink loves food. In fact, her relationship with it goes far beyond what tastes good and satisfies her hunger. She loves looking at cookbooks, finding recipes on the computer, and watching…

MelindaOctober 30, 2019

Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality

In Plain Sight

Deus Occultatum Love sparks and cells cluster, forming flowers and rainstorms, people and evergreens, calling bees and grasshoppers to song, squirrels and deer, to dance. Love lifts the paintbrush to the canvas, parts the lips…

MelindaSeptember 16, 2019

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

WALKING

At twelve, thirteen, fourteen months, when most children begin to walk, or make a show of pulling their soft wobbly bodies to stand, you were content to sit and rub the carpet, watch the fibers…

MelindaAugust 12, 2019

Harmonious Discord

Brown Girl Hair Has Left the Building

My Daughter, the Foodie

In Plain Sight

WALKING

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