What Crosses My Mind

  • My Blues Are My Own

    I woke up feeling a little blue this morning. Another reaction to the holidays. My family celebrates in multiple events now, and mine has always been Christmas night. I need to be thankful that I can gather with them at all. What goes through my mind are events throughout my life. We have a large…

  • The Holidays Are Upon Me

    I’m going to try to tell you a little story. The holidays can have a unique impact on our lives, for so many different reasons. They could be gains and losses that accumulate around the Christmas holiday. We sometimes will lose people at the most poignant times of the season, and with all of the…

  • The Three Principles

    I spend my Saturday nights exploring my thoughts with a group of similar minded people. Our meeting is based upon the three principles, a healing program created by a man named Syd Banks. The principles focus upon consciousness, mindfulness and thought and how these three keywords play a role in our lives. In the meeting…

  • Holiday Blues – Part One

    I woke up today feeling pensive. I often reflect upon my accomplishments over the course of the last three decades, and there is much for me to be thankful. I had the opportunity to run a theatre program most of my life, and I do believe I did a good job. I touched a lot…

  • Something About Love

    When I think about Thanksgiving, I remember eating too much food, playing in the snow outside my cousin’s home. I remember waiting for my Granny to let us all come and sit down, but before that one of the uncles, sometimes my dad, was carving the turkey. I remember traveling to Minneapolis or Duluth or…

  • Diana Ross singing at Rockefeller Center

    I was watching a Christmas special on NBC tonight – the lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center – the Rock as it is referred to. I was entertained by the singers and circumstance, and then suddenly, Diana Ross took the stage. I was stunned. Her voice carries over the decades of my life. In…

  • Ode to Holiday Blues – A Sonnet

    Oh, when the pressure is on to be on we wake into mornings of indecision. Wondrous life are we being put upon imagining peace to be our passion. So many hearts and souls to care about, where are new lines drawn, below or above for ’tis the season to offer devout compassion for those eyes that…

  • Pissed Off

    I could hide behind a mask of Passion Or present a façade of Confidence Although knowing me As you do I might simply wear my heart on my sleeve Yet I am unable to Feel very good about it tonight while Wallowing ~ Step inside my mind And you’ll see There are demons struggling With…

  • The Darker Reality

      In America, We celebrate with a feast All of our lives Are wrapped together In a few hours of dinner celebration ~ In America, Someone is crying Alone Away from the eyes they hide their pain Hungry ~ In America, We drive fine vehicles Wear designer gowns Winding black ties on our collars While…