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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 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

Family Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Spirituality Writing

Look up! The world is out there.

Reckoning Inside, just shy of sunrise, all over the land people awakened, reached for their small screens, hungry for the tiny words and pictures, memes and videos designed to amuse, entrance, distract from stress and…

MelindaJune 11, 2021

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Little Altars Everywhere

My home is host to little altars everywhere honoring lives lived, seasons arriving and leaving, the hundred sparks of grace and wonder, sorrow and understanding that pock and foliate hours and years squeezed into the…

MelindaDecember 29, 2020

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Dragonflies

Image by Rona Kline As I write this, my dear friend Marina lies dying in a lovely room inside the oldest house in an historic and pretty New Hampshire town. A wonderful woman who worked…

MelindaJune 26, 2020

Love Meditation Mindfulness Nature Writing

Time, Place, Classroom

WHEN The world gets so noisy. Too many voices straining, pushing past their natural limits to be heard. Our small ears can’t discern provenance or factuality. Reactions quicken, turning knee-jerk, protective. WHERE There is the…

MelindaJune 3, 2020

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

Nature Poem Writing

The Wisdom of Clouds

“ You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” Pema Chodron CIRRUS You are wisp, feet rarely touching dirt. Your gaze cannot be met. They call it lazy eye, but we know better.…

MelindaApril 3, 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

Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Writing

FISHING

Perched on the frost hardened bank of the wide, cold river, eyes intent on the rushing water, dark and high, I notice the greenish brown river grasses, rooted hopefully in their muddy beds, in a…

MelindaFebruary 7, 2020

Everything is a Sign

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