Bringing Simple In

Bringing Simple In

By Maida Korte “You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It’s all too much for the poor organism, isn’t it?”- Jeff Foster...
The Purging

The Purging

By Maida Korte “Her apartment in Stockholm might look as if a bomb had gone off in it, but mentally Salander was extremely well organized.”? Stieg Larsson           Ever since reading Garrison Keillor’s essay on spring...
Beyond the Window

Beyond the Window

“Set wide the window.  Let me drink the day.” ~ Edith Wharton There is a picture window at our kitchen table and this window allows me to sip coffee and gaze at our back yard with not a single muntin blocking my view.   A tall, long-needled pine sits at...
Hiding Places

Hiding Places

“I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried.”~ Richelle E. Goodrich           Lurking behind the walls of our ‘getting older by the minute’...
Rainbows and Peacocks

Rainbows and Peacocks

By Gwen Walker – for Chuck We had a peacock garden In rainbow bright array – But the sunflowers all have bent their heads And our finch is sparrow gray. I’ve walked the morning circle And heard the grasses squeal As Babe and Holly charge the day With swooping pristine...