What Crosses My Mind

  • During Those Days

    Remember when we were kids, the spruce saplings in backyard acreage we tore through those  – sticks and rage, long before we misunderstood cyber-kids.   Back then, way back when, back in the day we figured our lives were then forever never imagined hearts we love might sever would we really have to stay inside…

  • Finding a Moment

     Go home and write       a page tonight.       And let that page come out of you—       Then, it will be true. – Langston Hughes ~ Though when time would suggest it is an easy ask, this only task we have in life, is to speak our truths, who it is we might be, what we believe,…

  • Ground Breaking Rules

    When in childhood, I once stood in the forest, friends having descended the trail, a night of surreal exploration of the wood, a morning fire, a quiet reckoning.   Having forgotten a knife, knowing it to be on a rock, the rings of stone, suddenly erupted while coming upon, the late night stories.   There…

  • Always This Laughter

    I remember even in the darkest days, your smile would remind me, a life exists beyond the torment of our own self pity, we must relish the beauty of the day, and focus on the love we share, together in this moment with each other nothing else matters. I would brag about your prowess with…

  • I Teach

    *** August smiles, brilliant fall colors give pastel accents to carve a path home. ~ Aging, beauty to present a state of mind delightful, happy, invigorates our energy. ~ For now reflection is immediate only a moment’s glance suggests sweet shelter. ~ Doors will open anticipation screams through the distant halls recalled, fresh, familiar. ~ new faces,…