DEGREE OF ILLUMINATION
Would you know the degree of illumination the moon was willing to bestow upon you if you turned your open face skyward to take her in? What if there was…
LET GO.
The apricot tree is so full of fruit that the branches have bent to the ground. One branch snapped off, jagged torn from the trunk. Sometimes part of us can…
JEFFREY EPSTEIN IS FINALLY ARRESTED
Finally. Jeffrey Epstein has just been arrested by the FBI and the NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force, for sex trafficking and sexual assault of dozens of minors, 17 years…
SO MANY STRONG WOMEN.
I've been sitting for the last few days with feeling the need to say something, to acknowledge that more than a few people have shared with me over the last…
ONLY OPEN
VERMEERIt’s not a sheltered world. The noise begins over there, on the other side of the wallwhere the alehouse iswith its laughter and quarrels, its rows of teeth, its tears,…
APRIL SUPPORTS SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE, CHILD ABUSE AND VIOLENT CRIMES
Beautiful people, April is recognized as National Sexual Assault Awareness Month and National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and it also contains National Crime Victim's Rights Awareness Week. In honor of…
WIND, AND SIDEWAYS LIGHT
The wind called me outside, so that I could see the storm-sky it’s blowing in over the mountains all around me. The world is full of so much beauty that…
IT WAS NEVER A DRESS
In honor of International Women's Day, tell one woman in your life today that she is amazing. Look her in the eye and tell her that her badass, bold and…
CONJURING (or I LOOKED FOR THE WORDS TO TELL YOU)
I looked for the words to tell you. I want you to come to me, here, before spring claims me for her own, before the wind reaches for my hair…
R&B MUSICIAN ROBERT R. KELLY IS INDICTED
4 alleged victims, 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Class 2 Felony)At least 3 of the alleged victims have been confirmed as underage, older than 13 but younger than…
COME BACK HOME
I need tap shoes.I need a light on in the window.I need a pendulum. I need a map of the stars directly above me.I need a man who calls me, gently,…
ON FIRE IN MY HANDS
I dreamt last night that I was carrying an arrangement of stargazer lilies, the vase wrapped in white paper, along the edge of the ocean in late twilight. The lilies…
YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE
I love these little fortunes on tea bags, and I love that I have continued to love them for so many years. They make me feel good, and sometimes they’re…
BOX OF DARKNESS
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.”- Mary Oliver, American PoetSeptember 10, 1935 - January 17,…
ALL THIS LIGHT
In this desert, all this lightand memory. Briefest moment, your hand on my hipbone, your lungs unfurling themselves. I could taste your breath. Electric, your eyes, with what wasn’t said. So…