Tag: peace

  • Back to writing

    A lot in the world is going on, and many events or significant milestones have passed.  Ideas and snippets pass through my mind like water, and it is difficult to choose which to fish out and write about.  What kind of tone should I take, and what, at the end of the day, do I…

  • Today’s Music and Art

    For last couple of weeks, I have been mostly listening to Mystical Sun. At first, I was lost in the soundscape and very in tune to each note and beat. Over time, the music has incorporated itself into the background, and become a part of me. I’m still trying to find the words to explain…

  • What is Peace?

    An essay I wrote, titled “What is Peace?”, has been published by Edge Magazine and can be read here – http://edgemagazine.net/2012/11/what-is-peace/ Thank you to Tim Miejan for encouragement and confidence.

  • Welcome to Fall

    I can’t believe it is already fall and October.  I have drawn within myself the past few weeks as my headaches have been occurring daily, except for today.  There is nothing better than the feeling of liberty when you are back at the normal level of feeling, or the balance you have learned in living…

  • Return to a Previous Life

    Where do passions and obsessions come from?  And, do they feed or lead one into the other? One day I awoke with thoughts of prairies and open fields, stretching for miles, right into the setting sun casting burning red rays across the landscape.  I was not sure where this came from, and why.  Over time,…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…