Summer Morn
Hummingbird wings trill in the warm sun as winter past fades in memory. The green world rises and on this summer morn like eagle with his early catch I breakfast with the gods. Reading of “Summer Morn” with music by Morten Lauridsen
When Next We Meet
The day settles into a lazy umber glow as the tide rises to fill the cove. The distant mountains massive and snow capped, remind me how little I know. We humans are so small. Is this why we cling to power? Better to surrender vanity, join the deer in their evening browse or the teeming […]
Walking the Borderland
The borderland between this world and the other is a lonely place, fearful and unvisited by those who prefer daylight and the comfort of sleep. I walk beneath the tall trees, communing with the stars above the darkened forest, an outrider in the night where life force rises and the mystic becomes real. Like the […]
Precious Gift
The sun comes bright over the awakening city as we rise to daylight with memories of what was, hopes for what is yet to be. We walk alone but not apart, each of us cells in the larger body, moving together despite all distance; blood here, breath there, taking nourishment, releasing what’s unneeded. It may […]
Camas Waves
Camas spreads in lilac waves beside a slack tide sea; seals fish along the rocks, gulls plaint their echoing calls, songbirds sing from the thorny brush. Snow covered peaks rise in the distance, the sky pale blue with white clouds barely moving in a windless sky. Divining the peace in my heart most of me […]
Cup of Peace
I’m up early for the hour of quiet when the awakened earth softly steps into the garden of becoming. Sunlight touches the sea, trees drink deep in the forest and I sip on the cup of peace offered to each searching soul who rises with the dawn. […]
Carriage of Soul
Eagles sing in the tall firs as light bathes the island; songbirds call out, the air rich with music. I’m not as quiet as the trees though my roots sink and spread in the web of beauty. I tried cleansing the world but my work was here, scraping the rust off this carriage of soul […]
Hunger for Peace
Strong winds sway the trees while a full moon lies hidden behind layers of cloud. At dawn light rain showers the metal roof. From a far distance the hunger for peace crosses the sea. What can I do but receive the message and let my begging bowl of quiet be stirred by morning wind. […]
Open to the Stars
High up the tall mountain a cap of glacial snow shines bright in the setting sun. The waters lie calm between the islands, warm air tinged with smoke from the fires north in Canada. Still as a hawk, I sit studying the sea, learning to breathe with the tide and gather in light like the […]
As We Continue
Dolphins fish the tide line while I drop a threaded coil to the dark within, my hook baited with the worm of desire, the waters of imagination stirred by the cast. You are down there among the remembered faces looking up to the light that shines in darkness. I remember your gifts – the paper […]
She Offers Herself
Though you’ve wandered far and forsaken the familiar, who called you to become like the earth long enduring? She waits in winter dark, alive in the night beside wind driven seas. She offers Herself to all who approach Her, a gift beyond reckoning, bittersweet and rich with the presence of the eternal. […]
Before the Sky Grows Dark
Massive white clouds bank against the mountains while a blue gray blanket spreads over the sea. Nootka roses bloom as the camas wilt and fade. The chitter of birds in the forest, the cry of gulls across the bay and the slow beating of my heart. The ease of love where her face is unveiled […]
On This Quiet Shore
You won’t find me in those old haunts, the cobblestone streets above the river where metal bridges and railroad tracks lead to the iron bound city. I acted the fool, irresponsible and careless, but there was method in my madness, following the stars and dirt roads to be with wild geese and towering trees. In […]
Blessing Way
In first light the clouded skies lift, sun burning through to warm and awaken. Quiet lies upon the land with the sound of birds and echoing calls of nesting geese. Heavens open to the waiting earth, intimate the touch on a rising whale, the throb of hummingbird and this human heart, given as the ancients […]
May You Walk in Beauty
We are an old people, among the first the stories say, who walked the land when fresh with the Creator’s touch. Though scarred with years of trouble yet we sing the blessing songs, greeting the Sun each day with the thankfulness it deserves. And sing for you a song of belonging, child of a distant […]