natural world

Family Poetry Singing Spirituality Uncategorized Women's Issues Writing

Inner Child Remembers

Before The Tax that adolescence imposes on body, mind, and spirit, probably in that order, there were hearty chunks of time that were some sort of unencumbered. Inner Child remembers discovering the fairies living well…

MelindaNovember 14, 2017

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Uncategorized Writing

Autographing Autumn

I was walking, first field-- verdant, moist , glorious carpet of greens, and the woods edged closer, with a beckoning trail, and then the floor was pine needles, punctuated with wily old roots in no…

MelindaOctober 22, 2017

Autism Bink Nature Poem Poetry Singing Spirituality Writing

BRIDGES

We are pausing on a bridge over the dwindling stream that crawls through our large, local dollop of green, Bird Park, because we always pause, she and I, on every little bridge that spans any…

MelindaOctober 16, 2017

Art Cairns Crushes Nature Spirituality

STONE LOVIN’

Dear reader, is there something in the natural world that you are really drawn to? Birds, clouds, pine trees? Lightening storms? Is there something for which you have an unrelenting affection? For, me, it’s stones.…

MelindaAugust 9, 2017

Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing Yoga

Of Two Minds, or Many

What if there's no such thing as right side up? Of Two Minds, or Many When Left Brain speaks, she is right on about doing it right or don’t do it at all, do…

MelindaJuly 12, 2017

Autism Bink Family Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Welcome to Autismville

Shimmering minnow leaves AUTISMVILLE I can’t tell you it is an unpleasant thing to live in the quirky neighborhood, on the far side of the river, a good ways from the thickest part of…

MelindaJune 8, 2017

Nature Uncategorized Writing

The Feather and the Leaf

Picture this: it was cold, and I stood among trees. Many, many trees. I looked up, and there they were. A feather and a leaf, floating through the air, not quite up or down…

MelindaJanuary 25, 2017