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“’Where there is sorrow,’ wrote Oscar Wilde, ‘there is holy ground.’…  [grief] enables us to walk in this world with its realities of life and death, how it shakes us and breaks us open to depths of soul we could … Continue reading →

https://poets.org/shelter-poems This Black Swan (native to Southern Australia) has been seen along Salmon Creek trail. May you find shelter in winged ones and poems, needed medicine for our spirits. The Academy of American Poets has a new Spring project entitled … Continue reading →

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. — Howard Thurman “Fasten your spiritual seat belt”  – Stephanie Austin, Port Townsend, … Continue reading →

Un Río, Muchas Voces One River, Many Voices,  Clark County confluence: “The Columbia River is the fourth largest river in the continental United States. Seven hundred seventy-one (771) of its 1,243 miles flow through the State of Washington, descending south … Continue reading →

Imbolc is the halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. With heavy rain in the Pacific Northwest, and heavy sorrow in the world, we turn to the beauty of the Trilliums and Snowdrops emerging through the rain-soaked earth, the … Continue reading →

“Y mi niñez fue toda un poema en el rio, y un rio en el poema de mis primeros sueños.” Julia De Burgos This autumnal season has been full of enriching art, literary art and visual art with Clark County … Continue reading →

This New Moon in Scorpio turns the wheel of the year to Samhain,  a liminal time of listening to the autumnal migration: Dusky Geese, Trumpeter Swans, and Sandhill Cranes overhead with yellow, orange, topaz, and gold leaves twirling to the … Continue reading →

Every day the deer come to visit, and enjoy some bird seed…. “Black-capped Chickadee, Evening Grosbeak, Black-tailed Deer return more frequently…She is worried about the refugees and immigrants…” “Before the Sun Rises” –Gwendolyn Morgan© On Sunday, October 20th Refugee & … Continue reading →

“Look carefully at the letter shapes of your life, your intentions the vowels and consonants….” Gwendolyn Morgan, Before the Sun Rises Homebound Publications, 2019, p. 22 Before the Sun Rises is available through Homebound Publications https://homeboundpublications.com/before-the-sun-rises-by-gwendolyn-morgan/