Hold tight before you let go Let your pages yellow and your roots show Hold your youthful beauty in a photo album with the gardens of Eden that you’ve plowed Hold your tongue when it’s time to listen Don’t hold back your tears Let go of belief and held presumptions Hold doubt at a safe […]
1. I only have a window of opportunity when poetry breezes through. It’s like watching the clouds and seeing pictures in them, but if I look away for a minute, they’re changed or gone. 2. I currently have a gaping wound from a surgical excision of a skin cancer. Recovery has been harder than I […]
1. I use the pen to get a diagnosis as well as for the treatment. 2. “My page was too white / My ink was too thin / The day wouldn’t write / What the night penciled in…” Leonard Cohen 3. I have to be early if I don’t want to be late. On-time doesn’t […]
The closing gratitude circle at the Mindful Living and Soulful Aging retreat was an opportunity to ring the singing bowl and send our thoughts out into the universe. Someone read a poem. Martha sang a song that came to mind… long have I waited for your coming. Robin recited words from one of her original […]
Katherine Chantal and I presented a keynote poetry reading at the Mindful Living Soulful Aging retreat, held over the weekend at the Floyd EcoVillage and hosted by Instill Mindfulness and Be Well Now. “Mining the Gold of the Inner Life,” the sixth installment of our call-and-response Soulful Aging readings, set the tone for the retreat […]
1. The popular American saying ‘What’s up Doc’ comes from a Bugs Bunny Cartoon. The writer of the first Bugs Bunny film in 1940 explained that it was a common expression in his native Texas and back then “doc” meant the same as “dude” does today. But rabbits don’t eat carrots. The phrase is actually […]
Joe and I and my young sons were living in a bus attached to a tiny cabin at the Zephyr community when Cloe and her twin Clary were born there. Last year Clary married Michael and this year it was Cloe and Clay. Katherine, a life passage ceremonialist and Zephyr family member, welcomed the large […]
The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 5, 2024. The annual Floyd Yoga Jam festival began on Thursday, August 29, with an opening ceremony. Guided by life-passages officiant Katherine Chantal, the opening circle addressed the 2024 theme of ‘Retrospective’ and set the intention of presence and peace for the 4-day festival and […]
1. Only in Floyd can you fill up your gas tank in the same place where corn grows. 2. I ordered loaded fries at the Fat Bean food truck for one meal at Yoga Jam and had potatoes with another. “You like potatoes. Are you grain free?” a friend asked. “No, I’m Irish, I answered. […]
That was what I said at the end of our reading to the Yoga Jammers who came to Katherine’s and my Fairy Godmother’s Midnight and the Art of Archetype call-and-response poetry in the Tea Shanti. Most came on the title alone because the description wasn’t in the program, and some didn’t even know it was […]
