by lori | Jun 13, 2020 | Essays, Getting Lost, Grace, Grief and Loss, Imagination, Inimitable Joy, Love, Play and Magic, Story, Strength in Real Life, Unapologetically Odd, Wayfinding
Chaos, love, death, peace, rage, wonder, protest, gratitude, and humility. Throw in “so hot that I could pass out” and this could be a description of what going through menopause feels like. 😉 Here though, these words are what the world herself feels like to me right... by lori | Oct 7, 2018 | Culture, Essays, Imagination, Strength in Real Life, Wayfinding
It’s been a more-difficult-than-normal few weeks in the US for many women. Brutal for some. Just about every woman I know has been re-living their sexual assault, remembering their close calls, and/or listening to and comforting friends again who’ve been raped or... by lori | Jan 8, 2018 | Beauty, Gratitude, Here and now, Nature, Pain, Poetry, Sentience
I want you to celebrate yourself. Shake off your dust. Find fierce stones that speak to you hold them, gentle now, then drop them into rivers wrinkle your wide-eyed face to focus as they sink straight down oblivious to the current. Muck arrives through always-clear... by lori | Oct 17, 2016 | Beauty, Content, Gratitude, Here and now, Nature, Poetry, Respite
I love it when the wind strolls in and my meadow friends dance and bow. Love it when waves rush to crash across my ocean where the wide beach smiles up where the eagles rest silent on the wind above etch greetings sky to horizon down to me all the way home: carried... by lori | Aug 8, 2015 | Content, Flash, Here and now, Nature, Neighbors, Poetry, Work
a flash poem inspired by my new We Shall Dance with Mountains friends… Letting It Be soft paused cat nose to velvet bumblebee nose children down on the beach yelling to one another in self-created language: “Unda buda!” shout lungs...