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A Little Bullish

I know, I know. Much is not right here in the world. We conjure and raise up hatreds and fears born of misconceptions. We bow down to profit and convention instead of the goodness in…

MelindaJune 23, 2022

Art Death and Dying Love Meditation Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

She Runs On

She Runs On and On, and On A whole lot of nothing happening here in the Department of Creation of New Poems, and so I sat down with DETERMINATION and began to write, the…

MelindaJune 20, 2022

Art Autism Bink Cairns Death and Dying Family Love Meditation Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing Yoga Yogabilities™

Hello, As a very part-time Yoga teacher (and former studio owner), I maintain a separate email communication list for my students. There is a little bit of cross-over; a handful of my students (or former…

MelindaMay 30, 2022

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

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

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

She Runs On

Sixty Unplugged Minutes with my Love

I Wish You Knew

Integration

Headway Happening Here

WALKING HER HOME

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