Suddenly life seems less sure. Less secure. Anguish and outrage runs in our streets like blood. The beginning of 2021 has seen the threats of civil war become real. The obscenity on Twitterfeed and social media alt right has moved once again out into our streets with violence. This time to clash with police in … Continue reading Provisional
Traveling with Pomegranates
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Between 1998 and 2000, Sue [Monk Kidd] and her daughter Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, … Continue reading Traveling with Pomegranates
Hold to the Difficult
Friends, even as 2021 dawns, we are in a struggle to bend that moral arc towards justice. Those who see clearly are collectively bending it together. On the front lines of the pandemic, caring for the sick and dying. Teaching children in homes and classrooms. Singing on zoom calls. Comforting the fearful. Sending beautiful words, … Continue reading Hold to the Difficult
Tracks
Everyday I don my snow boots, my neck gaiter, wool hat with the flaps, boiled wool mittens and puffy down jacket to walk into the Carson National Forest. It is .5 miles from the Shepherds cabin where I am living this winter. At 8,500', tucked among the mountains of Northern New Mexico, the snow flies … Continue reading Tracks
Soul Birthing in a Winter Solstice 2020
I have taken myself into exile to Northern New Mexico. A small house in the mountains. A wilder place than my city life. Existence is closer to the bone. It is time to write. Only when I am far from the comforts of my daily life can I begin to explore the terrain of my … Continue reading Soul Birthing in a Winter Solstice 2020