Happy New Year
I am thankful for yet another year to learn, grow, and become better than I was the year before. And my wish for us all is that we find the hope and courage and strength to become even more of everything we want to be.
Throw Open Your Door
Fears, like ghosts only haunt our hearts And cause us strife when we live In the shadows –trapped between What is wrong and what is right. We close our doors tightly and turn out all the lights. We fear monsters might be knocking on the other side — Or maybe hate and scorn and a […]
My Wish For You
I wish more for you than health, happiness, and a wonderful Thanksgiving day. I wish for you, something better. I wish for you a life that is lived so real, so full of eager, earnest foolishness that you find yourself in that most, “delicious and important place”… “Foolishness? No, It’s Not” By Mary Oliver Sometimes […]
Whiskey Laugh
The moon, I think she has a deep and sultry whiskey laugh, With kindly wickedness flirting about each throaty note. I think she spends her secret days scaling Life’s innumerable steep mountain cliffs. And her twilight hours gazing over vast oceans, While casting off her diamond thoughts. And over the broad plains, she steals her […]
Unbroken
Never mistake my Velvet skin, curvaceous Thighs, tender heart, And delicate sighs as Proof of weakness Inherent. All these soft and Gentle signs belie A greater strength Living deep inside. I can be stretched, I can be strained, I can be wrenched In pain. Yet I remain unbroken. Bruises on my hips, Bloodied hands all […]
Parfum Life
I want a Parfum life! I want to whirl like a Dervish! I want to breathe in deeply the spicy Floral scents of love in full bright light! I won’t live off diluted fumes! I won’t dance twisted heartbreak jigs! I won’t hold my burning breath In the dank acrid shadows of strife! I want […]
I Live…
A blessed and blunderful life. “Thus I fell into surprise. No one told me to surprise myself, I might add. I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leapt out of bushes like quail before gunshot. I blundered into creativity as blindly as any […]
Ponytails, Wrinkles, Kettlebells, and Chalk
My coach and training partner is competing in the Colorado Masters at Front Range CrossFit this weekend. I was only able to catch one of the events today, but still, what an inspiring and humbling afternoon. In such a very short time, CrossFit is making a very significant change in how women view aging, health, […]