Subscribe
Categories
Random Posts
- Wit’s EndIt’s tough to be a person of great wit (to even say it seems a bit ironic); when every day one slogs through the bullshit …
- The BorderlinesWatch along the borderlines, out where the edges meet and mix their colors in the sand that stretches down the beach, not knowing of a …
- a wisp of purple clouded skyThe now expectant moon, hid by a wisp of purple clouded sky bathes all in dappled glints of light that stand on open ground this …
- Wit’s End
Recent Comments
- Christine on What happened to the theater?
- Christine on Conversate.
- Christine on Unbound
- Randall Simpson on It Ain’t What It Ain’t
Meta
Tag Archives: growth
If You’re Not Growing
Some of my old friends seem the same year after year: just like they were in high school, at the start of their careers They talk in careful circles around where they ought to be; and most of them still … Continue reading
Posted in Lines, Planes
Tagged disappointment, growth, maturity, personal history, regret, success
Leave a comment
They grow up fast
They grow up fast; in just a short month’s span the smallest seed becomes a tall, wild stalk grown high enough to look down on a man. But that time does not fly, despite the talk philosophers will write in … Continue reading
Imbolc
As the world wakes up from Winter’s slumber, she starts to shake the sodden snow that lies heavy on her cloak of gray and umber. After the long months of silence, she sighs a slow breath of warmth into the … Continue reading
While Reading of Ginsberg’s Life
To wake while reading William Blake to taste of life in dreamlike doses flexing the sinews of the mind in the fight against some status quo that lumbers, like a Clydesdale pair to drag a dying culture’s broken-wheeled cart along … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, change, culture, dreams, growth, poetry, William Blake
Leave a comment
The Dogwood
She with fond memories of elders now gone, & I with my own youth to call back to mind, bought a ten gallon dogwood last year, late in spring (& though maybe later than some would advise for a tree … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged daily poems, gardening, growth, memories, New Orleans, nostalgia, Starlight Dances, summer, youth
Leave a comment
One Can Learn Anywhere
Once upon a time, long time ago it was (a time of innocence / a time of confidences?), I was a parishioner at the Mennonite church in Bluffton, Ohio. In addition to being volunteered to teach youth groups about the … Continue reading
Posted in Planes
Tagged awareness, education, growth, heart, learning, love, relationships, understanding
Leave a comment