Sleep and winter. Deep waters and frozen earth Silence These things heal us, even though we may dread them. Taking the time to walk in the darkness, To hold that dark space within me To hold myself in tenderness Even … Continue reading →
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” … Continue reading →
The smoke from the California, Oregon and Washington fires has lifted now in the Pacific Northwest, and the season is changing abruptly from summer to autumn. I am grateful for the clearer air, which seems to have been cleansed by … Continue reading →
Yesterday the smoke was so bad here that I couldn’t go outside. The sunset was very beautiful again, of course, but a ferocious ill wind came in from out of the northeast, bringing smoke from the wildfires on the other … Continue reading →
I have a scar on my left thumb, right where the thumbprint it, from a cut I got chopping cauliflower one evening when my boyfriend was over. I was 22 years old. The cut bled like crazy and he thought … Continue reading →
I had the pleasure of hearing and talking to Robert Bly when he was on his book tour in 1990. I was intrigued by his talk and the mythical story of Iron John, the rusty red creature hiding in a … Continue reading →
