SUMMER FUN AND SUMMER SUN Summer beach and summer fun, sand-castle building under the sun, boogie-boarding, “Surf’s Up,” the cry, catching the rays all summer long; kicking up the sand along the water’s edge. Isn’t Summer grand? And I’m that child of summer once again, building sandcastles up to the sky, swimming with the dolphins, […]
JUST BEYOND THE RAIN It’s difficult to know from one day to the next, the canvas of the sky changing so every day, how things will go, what direction they’ll take, today blue skies and sunshine, tomorrow stormy gray; and driving rain is on the way, dark clouds clinging in silence to my mountains and […]
WOODLAND MAGICAL On this morning as the sun begins to rise up over and beyond the ridge, I come to this place where silence speaks as I hear it through the wind. I hear it within the mountain expanses as possibilities abound, eloquent as I listen in the quiet of this place and the rustling […]
TAKE THAT CHANCE BY BARBARA K A CHERYL’S PALS COLLAB Let your heart spin, turn your emotions to a song and sing them all, such sweet release as straight from the heart and completely unrehearsed, past and future don’t exist except in the moment of the song in carpe diem’s name. They say you can’t […]
OPPOSITES LEADING ME So many times I struggle to find my way along these well-worn paths that I travel upon. Often it’s simply much too dark and I can’t see at all; or I’m blinded by the bright sun and have to shut my eyes, as I try so very hard to look beyond both […]
UNIQUE TO BE We are so different, you and me, as different as day and night are we. You like the rain and I like the sun; you like the dark and I love the light; you like loud and flashy and I love quiet and subdued. With all these differences, it’s quite amazing to […]
MOMENTS UNFORGOTTEN Magical moments unforgotten, each and every one, the words, “I do,” shared so very long ago; the first sounds that our children made as welcomed to this world; the evening sun dipping gracefully below the horizon toward night to rise up over the mountains and greeting me again at dawn; the people I […]
FROM THE SHORE Oceans of wonder, so near, yet so far, captivating my imagination in shades of blue and flinty gray, white foam in rough waters cushioning my heart, something about the waves bringing peace to my soul as within the rhythms of waves washing upon the shore, I’m buoyed up by their power, their […]
EACH MORNING DEJA VU Each morning as I awaken, the sunlight on my face, the finches singing in the trees, the dewdrops on the leaves, I have a special feeling that I’ve been here once before. And indeed I have . . . . just yesterday I witnessed the very same thing, the sunrise that […]
TAKING FLIGHT I watched you growfrom the tiniest seed,when you were hardly a thoughtand barely a dream.And when you were ready,you knew and so did I,(for mothers and fathers know all those things),time to try out those new wingsas you soared and I again smiled. And on those days each one of youwere born into […]
