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Bend, OR was lucky enough to host a performance by Tony award winning singer and actress Betty Buckley at the Tower Theatre tonight. The really phenomenal thing was that I was smart enough to go and get a ticket at the door! I had a big crush on Betty when she was the sweet, soft-spoken [...]
Masks of brokenness Masks having it together Time heals both wounds the same. Good thing it’s not a race. “Last one to the island is a rotten egg” Collage and watercolor 2/2010 Submission for One Single Impression prompt: mask Thanks to Dreams are my Reality for this week’s prompt. Technorati Tags: one single impression,mask,brokenness ]]> [...]
Ecstasy as Housewifery I light red candles for the table. I sing to the trees as they leaf. I practice mundane ecstasy. I wash breakfast dishes in pear-scented suds and look out the window at slow burgeoning buds and know, too, of the soft grey nubs where the peach flowers will not come this year— [...]
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” – James M. Barrie I’ve been pondering this quote for some time. What does my grid [...]
Pain hardly ever looks like anything. Sometimes everything looks like it. Easter morning, with my brother at his church – full cantata; orchestra; rock band; a thousand clean people; clean in dress, style, and I would actually even bet – a good many of them cleanish in their desires, mostly. Sometimes, at the least. More [...]
Where I spend my work days We talk and talk about trauma looking for a new home lodging in our souls as we work with children Hurt like the evil spirits cast out by Christ lodging in the pigs and making them run into the lake. I’m not sure That it isn’t all the same. [...]
Swallows frantically dive and dart A river, warm again this year Provides so well that they never fear. The thunderbolt call, A gander to his mate Water dervish take off on a flight with no date. A coy, dark raven Guards the tree at my door I’m certain he knows not what next [...]
Before We Can Unlearn At this moment, you are seamlessly flowingwith the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the cliffs of Dover. … The Universe thinks and worksthrough you. —Deepak Chopra So far it’s the [...]
Gabrielle has been a dear friend of mine since I moved to Central Oregon in 2003. She is a a bit older—and wiser–than I, so I watch her process of ‘aging and saging’ closely and with great tenderness. She recently turned 65 and is struggling with life purpose and path. When she sent me this [...]
This is the final of the Lenten Reflections for 2010. Our study group has ranged far and wide, and discovered some important facets of ourselves and scripture. Tomorrow night is our Women’s Seder, led by Krayna Castelbaum. The Lenten group will meet one last time after Easter to check in with our individual and group [...]
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