To Do List

Sometimes my desk reflects the state of my brain.
What I’m trying to say is: I need to organize.

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I said goodbye

I said goodbye and walked away,
I left it there and turned around.
It was privilege,
excess,
there was just no room,
it couldn’t come.
My heart tore, it peeled and cracked like dried paint
a wound deeper than I expected.
But here you are,
persistent and bulletproof.
You didn’t stay down,
you didn’t let me walk away.
Now what do I do with you?
What do I [...]

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Comfort

I bought a new baking dish and decided that it had to be used the very second I walked in the door – a flurry of magical forces entailed as I whipped up a glorious dish of comfort food – straight up Saskatchewan style – it was very good and very comforting indeed.

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10 Beautiful things

- a library I can use whenever I want
- a really comfortable bed
- food in my fridge
- space to pray/think/dream
- drinkable tap water
- Eleanor
- getting to know strangers
- scarfs
- the canvass sitting in my room
- the smell of apple cinnamon oatmeal in the morning.

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Well, Well, Well

Ben Harper is one of my musical heros.
This album with the Blind Boys of Alabama “live at the Apollo” is glorious.
Just wanted to share one of the songs from the album – one of my fav’s.

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Nothing is what it seems…

You know when the things you see physically with your eyes just don’t make sense? The grid from which you view things is telling you one thing, and yet what you see/experience is telling you something very different?
Have you ever had words spoken out loud, a physical thing moving towards you, get consumed by [...]

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Movement

This has been an interesting term – in all respects. Full of differences and nuances, challenges and strife, surprising joy and gratefulness seeming to well up out of nowhere. It is moving so fast though, like water falling through my fingers I see and feel these moments greet me and move on. [...]

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an ache

blurry
out of focus
aching
unsatisfied

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..

I turned and walked out the door and ran as hard as I could.

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The Valley Song

It is striking how one situation of grief you learn about seems too ripple into the lives around you. Learning of so many people in my circle of acquaintances that are dealing with losses of loved ones and are situated in grief at the moment. I sat down for some background music to [...]

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