What Crosses My Mind

  • On Being Present

    Oh, to discard the past, the volumes and layers of discrediting haste will weigh heavy the favors. Years in solitude the mind is porous yearning for attitude a venture laborious. The tasks of happiness ought be adventurous. © Thom Amundsen 10/2021

  • Life In Chance Encounter

    In discovering one another, we all recall the indecision, the wonder, the what if this person has totally different views on how to live my life, in response to how I see their life evolving.   And then there is the church gathering, where everyone does smile, does wear finery, does hope to be noticed…

  • Piano Solos

    Listen, while the world rings true, a glimmer, a hope, a dance while this melody, a shape maker presents an accidental shift in memory. Imagine the rise of delightful keys, sweet muse soft patterns of reality. ~ I listen to piano solos for the breadth of tradition, that notion spoken in the hearts of many…

  • Begin Now

    When they said, ‘wait for tomorrow’ they might have followed with a rhapsody of torment in eruptive skies. For we do seek explosive reckoning, when a sudden cathartic, a ‘now’ moment as mother always cried in the midst of change, what opportunity lies in the future is exactly our temptation. If only I might be…

  • State of Mind

    Well it seems rather simple when we look it square in the eye, you’re either thinking racist thoughts or your not, it seems like it ought to be that simple in our world today, yet, we now have to include state of mind. ~ We used to get away with recognizing hatred as evil, a…

  • Grey Days

    Beautiful ways. Understand we believe a happiness begins inside our heart. Without that connection, how we perceive the world around us seems less a start, Quite a reality we’d more avoid. Fear is a common ground speaks volumes loud when in a single day we feel that void that stir of anxiety, disallowed by a societal definition.…