A wonderful learning opportunity and a healthy and timely diversion. Today I start a month-long writing course on Poetry writing. This is part of the ongoing Blogging University courses presented by WordPress (my blog platform). I participated before on the basics of blog writing and I am excited to stretch myself to learn more about poetry... Continue Reading →
Becoming
Each of us must write. In life most of us do not discover this truth. Writing is discovery and at our deepest being we are explorers seeking hidden truths about ourselves and our world. It starts with an audience of one. If you do not yet have a writing practice, start. Write for yourself. Walk... Continue Reading →
A Journey to Here
It is time for a summer road trip - everyone into the car, wife, kids and dad behind the wheel. Early start and we head north. I look forward to this journey. I want to go there. I need to leave here. Truthfully, I know, there is no there. Forever there is only here and... Continue Reading →
The Wisdom of Elephants
I can delay no longer. I start to the East, sunrise ahead. I watch the sunshine pour over the hills. I see. Elephants march across the ridgeline heading to the South. My job is to the North. Where are the elephants going? I need to know. I long to follow. Weekly Writing challenge: Fifty. A... Continue Reading →
The Peace of Wild Things
A favorite poem of mine. Indeed, a prayer. I fall into the words and embrace the meaning. I lay still and for a time I am free. As I stand once more, I am ready to move forward. Move forward indeed. My hope is each of you find poems or other writings that have similar... Continue Reading →
Two Roads Diverged
Change consumes me this week. My two sons stand at a crossroad. The youngest is off to university life thousands of miles from home; from California to Virginia, worlds apart. My oldest is off to the midwest in search of gold and self. Each stands at the "two roads diverged in a wood" as Robert... Continue Reading →