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Family Love Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Writing

Sixty Unplugged Minutes with my Love

I used a text to carve an island from a Thursday in two overloaded lives. I typed 10 to 11 Walk with me. Moose Hill. I meant Come. To the refuge down the road, the…

MelindaMay 5, 2022

Family Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

What’s in a name? More pub cred, musings

Mid-April already? Time is such a liquid concept. Today, my already may be your finally. It is already April? Finally, it is spring. In February, my finally was louder than my already. Finally, Winter has…

MelindaApril 12, 2022

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry

AUTISM AWARENESS DAY Redux

I'm re-posting this poem in recognition of "World Autism Awareness Day." As D, a sister mom from my autism tribe, has said, " We are aware. We are very aware." Autism Awareness month is…

MelindaApril 1, 2022

Death and Dying Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing Yoga Yogabilities™

All This Joy, All This Sorrow

Monday, March 28, morning. It’s snowing as I write this. Big, fluffy flakes that arrive past the date of our northern hemisphere Spring equinox. I wonder if they know they won't accumulate. If they did…

MelindaMarch 28, 2022

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 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 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

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