Tag: peace
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Take the Time
No matter what day to day life brings, and regardless of how busy we are, and how we seemingly lose time, we have 24 precious hours. Take the time for play and for walks in nature.
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Today’s Music
Today finds me searching for a more settled, and calm place. I chose the band “Startle the Heavens” new release “Glowing in the Living Light”. The music is ambient, instrumental, rock, soothing – the kind of music you hear in your head when the sun rises from behind a mountain peak and the first light catches…
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Untitled Poem
I posted part of this a few days ago. It’s the first new poem I have written in awhile as I wait for my well to replenish. This is the completed first part of the piece. I have tried writing 1 or 2 more sections to this, but they are coming across as forced, contrite,…
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Stone Garden
Intently walking the empty shoreline with faint reminders of empty fields each stone or grain of sand unique we listen to our internal voice in choosing which will become the stone garden we will build and tend to. Some stones are quiet, content with their place here. Some stones jump or shine. Still others sit…
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Story About John Haines
“A Walk in the Woods with John Haines” has been published in print by Edge Magazine and is available here for your reading pleasure. This story is about a walk in the woods I took a few years ago in northern Minnesota. As John Haines is a great influence on my own writing, both poetry…
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Peace for Now
The mind is heavy with thoughts as the snow fall ends and we are left with the aftermath, the heavy blanket across the land, the frozen flowers and trees, and the rabbit’s track at the front door. So simple, so beautiful.