The Blue Flower

“The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.” ~Annie Dillard I...

'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be beautiful or believe to be useful' - William Morris Most people living in America...

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not...

Every one of you is an encouragement to me to keep writing. Thank you, sincerely! You encouraged me when you decided to join this group....

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~Anais Nin won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life?...

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and...

“Between the stimulus and the response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our...

“The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.”...

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour."...

A year or so ago, I came across V’s (formerly Eve Ensler) letter of apology to the earth, “Dear Mother,” and I felt a catch in my throat...

“Love is a great beautifier” (Little Women, Louisa May Alcott). When was the last time, while observing or speaking with someone, you...

TRANSLUCENCE by Denise Levertov Once I understood (till I forget, at least) the immediacy of new life, Vita Nova, redemption not stuck in...

I am ten years-old, barefoot on a late spring day, and sinking into a grave. That’s what I like to pretend for a split second as my toes...

Sometime in March I projected ahead and planned to write this entry around Mother’s Day. Then, with recalibrating during this time of...

So much has changed in our world since last I wrote. I could write of course about the coronavirus and the current situation we all are...

*I began this post in early February but only now was able to finish it. It speaks from a mid-winter perspective, but hopefully it will...

"What was it -- that burning, that amazement, that endless insufficiency, that sweet, that deep, that radiant feeling of tears welling up?...

On this eve of Christmas Eve, in the midst of what I hope has been a cheering, luminous month for my readers, I bring to you first a...

Some readers might be familiar with Mary and Martha in the Bible. Two sisters of Jesus' acquaintance, Martha was all work and bustle,...

I have more than one post percolating on literature and motherhood. Tonight I offer you the first. I have only ever read The God of...