Gratitude & Manifestions

Gratitude & Manifestions

I landed at the Oakland airport, on a sunny day in 1997. My mom came to rescue me from a dead end situation in Seattle, and as we drove back to her place in Napa, we started talking about manifestion. and it’s link to the force of gratitude. From this one spark of conversation, came a new way of thinking that changed my life, forever. I tried... [Read more...]

Hookah!

Hookah!

I believe in a life of moderation. It’s a valuable, life-saving happy place, to ride the middle of the fence, only slipping to one side or the other when the grass of the neighbor’s lawns you are running above, truly *is* greener! The fact is, we all have vices. The trick is to either change it up (so smoke for 10 yrs, but then move on to... [Read more...]

Letters-Dear Betrayal,

Letters-Dear Betrayal,

I rise and soar past you on strong beating wings I curse and roll over you in muddy banks, late at night I forgive you and brush your face in a gloved hand I am unsettled by my ability to feel nothing, even after you’ve taken my heart hostage. Always, Promise  Read More →

Promises’ poems

Promises’ poems

It was real masquerade, it was a real cover up make up pulling up drop me down of standing in the bathroom tub full of water incensed and curled up sleeping he’s saying I love him on his way out the door clicks but I heard him pause in the hall I heard him rattle his keys in his hand like he might come back inside Like he doesn’t really have to... [Read more...]

Quan Yin-in the dark

Quan Yin-in the dark

Quan Yin statue I step up to the altar-greet her dragon; gaze at her face. I light one candle, then another, and mentally rest for a moment, though I am standing. It feels like a perch, spiritually. A place at the end of a quick-light footed staircase, leading to a panorama. I perch there, and muse on my path, and the various threads that intersect... [Read more...]

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