Category Archives: Life Stream Stories
Living Shadow
Inspiration: Poets often see~and see through~a situation. We look at the levels behind, the levels below, seeking the essence of the event. Sometimes we can do the same with people. I frequently meet very talented people who are living only … Continue reading →
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Calling Back My Spirit
Inspiration: I’ve met some interesting people who have chosen to work through the challenges in their lives by consciously reviewing, evaluating, and making decisions based on where they want their lives to go. Along the way I heard someone say, … Continue reading →
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Long Ago
Inspiration: Current trends and old patterns mix when times get hard. I am a witness to how the patterns of long ago stifle, challenge, advance, destroy, sidetrack, and otherwise affect the choices people around me make. Having searched my past … Continue reading →
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Hearthunger
Inspiration: When we have to deal with the loss of a relationship we can develop a heart~hunger. We long for what we have lost. Someone I care about is living through a tough transition. In trying to understand it, give … Continue reading →
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Darkness
Inspiration: Listening to how people deal with cultural dark times~~layoffs, foreclosure, financial loss, spiritual emptiness, social shame, identity quakes, death of a loved one~~caused a reflection on darkness. What urges do we face? How do we deal with them? How … Continue reading →
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Stream of Stories
Inspiration: I went back to listen to Spiritual Partnership and found this poem in a file. It is a companion to that poem. It speaks to what we are really asking of someone when we ask them to enter into a … Continue reading →
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Events Live
Inspiration: In a recent telephone conversation I had dejavu. I felt I had had that conversation before, not once or twice, but many times. It felt like a movie I’d watched too many times and a part of me was … Continue reading →
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Black History: Red~White~Blue
Inspiration: Identity is frequently fluid, forming and reforming the more we come to know about ourselves. When PBS aired a number of programs about the Human Genome Project in 2005, I was intrigued. I could now discover some DNA answers … Continue reading →
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In honor of our election
Inspiration: I sat inspired by the millions of us who turned out to vote in our presidential election. I, like many, struggled to find the right words to describe the moment. It was on the new day of November 5th … Continue reading →
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Blue
Inspiration: I was thinking back to one of the first poems I ever wrote. I was in the first grade. It was a poem for Mother’s Day. It went: With a smile so bright and eyes so blue, Mother I … Continue reading →
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