Posts Tagged ‘love’
A trust-fall back into the flow…..
Sometimes, when I barrel into a block with my writing, I wriggle free by doing this something that comforts loose the flow and I wonder if it’s an odd quirk of mine, or do you do it too: list-making. I love lists. Sometimes the list becomes the thing. Like today, when I’m trying to back…
Read MoreFacing into the wind and finally a face….
There are 100 counties in North Carolina, and I begin trolling through them all, searching the obituaries for a place I’ve got a homesick longing to see. I have to do something, my hunger to know gone so long unfed and I’m given over to the kind of desperate that makes you clutch and grasp…
Read Moreof pots and pans and wings…..
It’s been long hours driven inside from the cold and I’ve been cooking to stay close to the fire, making food with love for body and soul because sometimes it’s the only way I know in the muddy places and so there I stand, heart a little shaky, hands solid on the shiny purple of the onion that I…
Read MoreA Christmas hush….
I’ve listened for it since I was little, the hush that seems to fall like snow these days before Christmas, a holy quiet that hovers heavy sweet and thick, even in the bustle, the universe holding her breath in wonder. I’m slipping into the quiet for a long soak, making space to bask and awe…
Read Morelet me count the ways….
Celebrating 29 years of togethering and oh how grateful I am for my mister ~ his beautiful hands and kind, firm touch, ~ his quiet way ~ how when he laughs, really laughs, it’s music, like my grandpa’s, ~ his loving fierceness for protecting our children ~ the compassion that rises up and takes him…
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