Feelin’ Down For The Holidays? Make A Gratitude List

            Winter Leaf In Pink Ice I & II, February 2007, Mabel Dodge Luhan   House, Taos, New Mexico, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey.   All rights reserved.    I don’t do New Year’s resolutions anymore. Wasted time. Wasted space. I never seem to follow through. Why project promises into the future, I’m not [...]

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PRACTICE – Sleep – 15min

Sleep, the Temptress and the tempted. She doesn’t come easily for me these days. There were times when sleep was a blessing, refuge of the depressed. Then there are dreams. I don’t always remember them. But lately, they’ve been restless and disturbed. The things in which I’ve put my trust are rocky and double-edged. Last [...]

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Abandoned Is…

by Elizabeth Statmore  Writing this book is the loneliest journey I have ever been on. Nothing even compares — not divorce, not mental illness, not abandonment, not the murder of my best friend from high school. Not therapy. Not meditation. The other day I told Natalie how hard I am finding this last stretch. She [...]

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Saints or Sinners, We Need to Talk

I read the edge in ybonesy’s piece, Who Stole My Saint? What I like is that she didn’t shy away from what she wanted to say. She spoke her truth. Writing breaks us open, wears us out. Most good things do both. Shadow. Dark. Light off the dent in a muddy golf ball. I liked her [...]

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Giants Sat Here – I Remember

Lawrence’s Firebird, February 8th, 2007 I remember the chair. And you there sketching on the porch. The day was clear, my 2 year anniversary date, and you could hear the wind through the Ponderosa pines. Water dripped off of corrugated tin roofs. And we walked up the hill to the memorial in silence.   Remember [...]

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