The Sturgeon Moon Widened, a white pupilover the yard, as my grandmotherhung rattlesnake skins. Her fingertips workedin the quiet grammar...
There are moments that divide your life into “before” and “after.” For me, that moment came on May 19, 2000—the...
One ex is having a psychotic break. Rants about a child sex trafficking ring his family and anyone who cares...
A Perfect Love Long ago, I had a baby cousin in another land.She spoke, but not one word did we...
Simple Let’s keep it simple.Clouds. Water. Rain.No solid geometry.No history of the Trojan Wars.Light the candlebut leave flameto melt wax...
The pilgrim Desperation had propelled him to travel. After months of seemingly fruitless seeking, through means that seemed entirely serendipitous,...
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of falling in love. It’s what prompts songwriters to work their craft. The pursuit...
A Hummingbird Hymn Hummingbirds, so small and swift,a reminder of our ancestral gift. Your colours of emerald and ruby,an ancient...
It’s a Practice, They Say We’re never as good as we’d like to be.All this time here, and I am...
My name is Brandon E. Simmons and I took a serious misstep in life. It was 2012, and I had...
In My Younger Days I wanted to make no sense. To vanish.To be as remote as photos of ancient ancestors.Or...
Narcissism has become quite a buzz term over recent years, and has led many to believe that we are capable...
I Am Presence I am Presence, a pure and radiating presence.Neither here nor there, I come and golike the passing...
The chapter where she prayed to her Lord to stop the pain I truly cannot explain how madly in love...
Well, Spring has sprung and as the saying goes, “Love is in the air.” As you Spring Forward and head...
January “Well… what did you learn?” I let out a shaky breath, head dipped low, along with a slight laugh....
Meditation Thoughts wander—that’s OK.Can you find a way to appreciatethe subtle stillness of the present?Tempted to driftoff like a dream,but...
So This Is Love… Do you know how it feelsto feel your heart blossom again, to look at yourself and...
Beauty The fields of my mind were once overwhelmed with weeds that I carelessly left to expand and grow between...
The figure at the top of the house is Meher Baba, the personification of the “Higher Power” of the couple....
Depression I’m so depressed. there is something wrong, something wrong, something wrong. Is it that I have no friends?Is it...
Atammayata Birth and death, love and hate, the burnt scentof cloves on fingers and campfire on jeans,…..nothing is attached for...
Deep down, each and every one of us is longing to experience a divine love relationship with another human being....
It’s time to get up for breakfast. Mine is a two-tribe household of indoor and outdoor cats, and they are...
