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In praise of song

SONG STORIES You open your mouth and out pours a river carrying the rhythms of fluids— blood and lymph, tears, synovial. It is current, and source, keeper of…

MelindaJanuary 2, 2019

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Receiving the darkness

The word solstice was born from the Latin sol ( sun) and sistere ( to stand still). Solstice, winter This darker interlude could be a meditation, a reckoning with the deceptive nature of time. The…

MelindaDecember 22, 2018

Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Morning is mostly a prayer

It's been over a month since I last posted here. The reasons are many, but I guess it all whittles down to this: not blogging begets not blogging. I'm here now, though, offering this poem…

MelindaDecember 20, 2018

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Arrivals

I'm posting this a day before my daughter's 26th birthday. I've always felt, with certainty, that we were meant to incarnate this way, as mother and daughter, at this particular time in the life of…

MelindaNovember 14, 2018

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The Meaning of Compassion

The Kuan Yin She keeps watch in the warm corner of my bedroom, her bearing almost more regal for the rivers of cracks and generous chips that mark her faded turquoise. Her right hand, the…

MelindaNovember 5, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting

Little Things

It was, in my home, an ordinary weekend morning. I rose before him, he before her, the felines were fed. I made three different kinds of tea, two prepared with stevia and soymilk, one with…

MelindaOctober 15, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Natura Illustratio

Nature is a picture book of wisdom and example, an illustrated guide to how we could arrive, and live, and die. Take, for example, a leaf in spring. It draws from mother tree the energy…

MelindaSeptember 25, 2018

Bink Family Meditation Spirituality Writing

Fat on Silence

I need to write it down. I should do this before true memory fades and is replaced, as it so often is, by a recall that looks like The way I wanted it to…

MelindaSeptember 18, 2018

Art Bink Family Parenting Spirituality Writing

SHE and DOE

It was a few years ago that I found myself meandering in a quaint little town in western Massachusetts, about two hours east of home. I saw the…

MelindaSeptember 8, 2018

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality

Thalassophile’s Lament, August

That place I left my last glass of calm, tabled and shimmering like the Sun himself had reached down and swished his mighty steamy hand in its vitalizing…

MelindaAugust 30, 2018