Please Call Me by My True Names

Please Call Me by My True Names

Please Call Me by My True Names Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arrivingto be a bud on a Spring branch,to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,learning to sing in my new nest,to be a caterpillar...
An Old Musician

An Old Musician

An Old Musician How Should Those who know of God Meet and Part? The way An old musician Greets his beloved Instrument And will take special care, As a great artist always does, To enhance the final note Of each Performance. “The Gift” – versions of...
For a New Beginning

For a New Beginning

For a New Beginning In out-of-the-way places of the heart,Where your thoughts never think to wander,This beginning has been quietly forming,Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long time it has watched your desire,Feeling the emptiness growing inside...
For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid

For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid

For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid There is a country to cross you willfind in the corner of your eye, inthe quick slip of your foot–air fardown, a snap that might have caught.And maybe for you, for me, a high, passingvoice that finds its way by beingafraid....
Love the One You are with…

Love the One You are with…

Love the One You are with… Outside the realm of the fairy tales, committed-relationships come with difficulties and challenges. That is at least what I have learned from my personal and professional experience.Cinderella and Prince Charming seem so sweet together, yet...