What Crosses My Mind

  • I Feel Fear

    I saw it, reviewed it and I fell apart, the symbols were evident and stark. All day I wondered how I’d react, came home, turned on the news and immediately felt at fault, felt like I was glorifying her death, because of the horrific Hollywood replay. Truth is she was only trying to live her…

  • Traffic

    I like a steady pattern, lighting up the night. We’re all aiming together oblivious of each other. As long as we’re okay, that’s how we travel. Passing each other by, always on the alert. Another night on the highway.

  • Shells

    Inside is a luxurious tactile shelter where we all might wish to be. Sometimes attainable in a dream, quite out loud in our sitting room. Where we know that the outside contains all the misconceptions  and thrills at the same time. Our space inside doesn’t tighten, it is in the mystique of a gift we…

  • Curiosity

    Matter that lives suspended, and sways side to side, only a breeze permits. It captures a sound, plays a little melody that a passerby might appreciate or express.  I have this imagination, lets the song have a life. I’ll sit sometimes with coffee, bathing in her relaxing tone, and find that peace of mind. The…

  • Silence In The Moon

    Sort of a gracious setting I want to imagine. A pleasant breeze let’s me walk slowly toward that horizon, the moon and me alone. Just one of those special moments in our own lives, all partially in the mystique we live. Some nights I want to stare and let my mind, so loud in my…

  • Finding Our Way

    Doesn’t matter if we are picking sides, each of us are vulnerable to habit. One is to imagine themselves alone, and the other? Well that’s my reality. I want to be kind to my neighbor. Helpful, compassionate, caring, supportive. all of the above without exclusion. I want to help us define inclusion, and just know,…

  • Shadow Moon

    I look for you in a quiet arena. When everything designed in thought, plays with my emotions, just pretends. I look forward to these visits, they seem so incredibly real in my mind. Tonight while in the shadow of the moon I’ll dance in a familiar formal air. We’ll cruise through the twilight smiling, while…

  • America Lost

    I wish I could feel peace every moment of my life, but I’m so wrapped up in everything that brings me down. Feeling compassion for the world around me is compartmentalized, so much confusion drives our human condition. If there were no derision with each other’s philosophy, they would suggest we’d all find an ordinary…

  • Finding Love

    I write what’s in my heart, my rituals, my train of thought. I wish often to be left alone, a comfort in my own psyche. It’s easy sometimes, feeling alive. Challenges lay before me, I wonder if they are my own, or do I create a crisis, my benefit. I’m standing at a crossroads, a…

  • The Crucible – Lesson Learned in Rehearsal (1997)

    She was playing the role of Abigail in The Crucible. Her impact on the character was just beginning. There is an intense scene between her and John Proctor, and she was having a little trouble reaching the inner turmoil of the character. I took her aside one day and asked if she ever raised her…