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A Slow Start to 2020
As 2020 emerges from the cold waters, we take stock of the previous year. It feels as though...
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Stepping Into New Light
Three-months have passed since I stepped into a new day, awash in Minnesota morning light. This would be...
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Comfort Taken from What is Given
I imagine this scene, a snapshot of any ordinary point in time, perhaps not meaningful to anyone else,...
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The Next Chapter
Passing through the pages of life,some chapters are thin and we quickly move,some consume years and decades. After...
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Has the Time Arrived?
Living in the present with thoughts and energyfirmly cast into the past with vivid memories. Each sunrise across...
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Autumn Thoughts
Speeding through November with December around the corner, a pause is warranted in the daily flow to reflect,...
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Poem – Saman
The black silent outline moves closer as time passes, time not from here. The empty sky vibrates as...
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Poem – The Bridge
Years ago, after the moment passed, one of those life changing decisions that, somewhere inside, I know altered...
Poem – Love
What we have spans time, existing without place, breathing with each ray of light, captured in morning waves.
Poem – Driving North
Driving north this May an early summer and the windows are closed as the heat presses against skin...
Poem – Witnessing Time
Deep into the frozen land we venture. Holding hands with no words spoken. Miles away mountain shadows...
Poem – Transitions
Through our normal daily lives, time consistently pushes us forward toward goals and moments we may or may...
Poem – Boundaries
The boundary between the empty field and the old pine forest transports me from the confines of my...
Poem – More Questions Than Answers
That crossroad we come to in moments of stress and blocks, the struggle choking rational thoughts, the behavior,...
Poem – Direct Dreams
In the fractured sleep of night’s immersed in dreams based in nothing familiar or known, one word repeated...