In Africa Wanda Waterman The African students gave each other hell For buying things like hair removal gel, Or coffee pods, or cereal bars, or Coke, Or instant rice, or peppermint foot soak. “How ya gonna find that back in … Continue reading Poem: In Africa
Music has the weirdest power to help us really feel what we’re feeling in this moment, to hug our anger, to nurse our broken hearts, to celebrate our joys and mourn our sorrows, to soothe our fears, to heal our … Continue reading Journal Entry: The Weird Power of Music
Breathing in: Beloved Breathing out: Be loved Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme
Why should we believe that the universe was plotted out in the office of a majestic architect, or designed in the workshop of some sublime engineer? Isn’t creation more like a poem that simply writes itself once the poet has … Continue reading Journal Entry: A Love That Must Be Spoken
John Everett Millais, Ophelia, c. 1851, oil on canvas, Tate Britain, London When we encounter things or people that remind us that the world is still a haven for evil and ugliness, that it bears the smudge of evils of the … Continue reading Journal Entry: What the Beauty Says
The Mindful Bard 