On this first day of Spring…the Spring Equinox, we are reminded of the passionate, pulsating power of life bursting at the seams of nature in our northern hemisphere. As fecund life fertilizes our imaginations and souls with desires, I reflect on life’s purpose in me. What am I called to birth into life this season?
One [...]

How often have you wished you could go back and do it all over again…only “get it right this time”? Regret and remorse often tinge our lives with somber hues, sapping the vibrant color and joy of a life lived to the full. The desire to return to an action, thought, decision, words spoken or [...]

Halloween —> Hallow E’en —> Hallow Evening —> Holy Night
This venerable sacred night, called Samhain in the tongue of my Celtic ancestors, has a rich and controversial history. As with most ancient cultures, there was a powerful belief in the continuation of life after death. With that belief was an equal certainty that the dead [...]

December 25th (in the Julian calendar) marked the feast of the Winter Solstice. Originally known as the Feast of “Sol Invictus” (Latin for “The Unconquerable Sun”) it celebrated a deep and abiding faith that despite the darkest and longest night of the year, the light would triumph and return to its ascendency over the dark. [...]

My father died some time this morning.
Death is a welcome yet uninvited guest
She bides the time of her own choosing.
A surrender, a sigh, a severing -
a whispering into eternity
to begin again with someday newborn cry.
Embracing the fullness of emptiness
releasing the emptiness of fullness
the soul waits
surrendering into life.
My vigilant grief keeps sentinel
its own memories awake.

I am the desire of the star
for the planet in its circular embrace
I am the desire of the wood
for the fire’s sweet immolation
I am the desire of the song
for the ear of its beloved
I am the desire of the soul
for the soul of its desire
I am
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