What Crosses My Mind

  • An Upsetting Time

    Stunned, a brief awareness, then disbelief, then horrific, ugly, insane realization. My people, your people, we people, all of us trying to breathe. We are told to ‘look the other way’ in a manner of speaking only because we still have compassion. We are asked to pass judgment upon soul driven desire across the divide…

  • The Message of Camelot and high school theatre

    Today, I am reflective. This weekend our students performed Camelot on the Shakopee High School stage. This is a show that has been with me since as a child, my mother brought me to see my first production in Wausau, WI as our neighbor was performing in the ensemble. I remember being immediately drawn to…

  • The Next Day (Why Paris?)

    When sun arose to widen sleepy eyelid A calm begun soon turned memory horrific We wake shadowed in darkness, a slow embrace Shattered dreams begun inside stranger despair. The news however distorted cannot rid Crying heart, confused eyes, reality’s prolific Mastery of human nature’s fallible race. Once thrive her eyes this morning lacking air. No…

  • Whisper Peace

    pray whisper please awaken piece acknowledge pleas together peace

  • When Northern Ireland Spoke

    When they were kids they threw ‘dirtballs’ in acts of war, their way of showing the offensive and winning battles. There was a visit that year from Northern Ireland. Belfast was sending children to freedom’s roots, a symbolic gesture. my the stories they told, living in a war zone, surviving while playing with molotov cocktails.…

  • Freedom of Speech 2015

    We were tested today, is word allowed to speak in utterances, scream aloud our freedoms, our ability to breathe in energy evils presently seethe. ~ Remember as a child when first we learned civic responsibilities, speech earned. Tomorrow, next week, again, we honor human lives. We must destroy dishonor. ~ ‘War’ donned my Stop signs across the city we…

  • Paris – Evil Speaks

    We must recognize this is not our home, yet, their home is ours as well. We must realize our world is inter-connected their pain lays dead in our street, We must remind ourselves that our freedom was just desecrated by the strong arm of evil, it lurks, around us, anywhere it chooses. We are asked…