Solstice Offering 2024 by Ali Freedlund
We bow to be lifted. Continue reading Solstice Offering 2024 by Ali Freedlund
We bow to be lifted. Continue reading Solstice Offering 2024 by Ali Freedlund
Hold on tight to the earth, Hold on tight to yourself, Hold on tight to your love. Let God hold on tight to you. Continue reading Yellow Sky
Remember joy… Continue reading Dancing Into Morning…
Snow lies thick and immovable, covered now with ice. This glue molds the white into impossible formsLike jokes.Their hilarity is solid and unchanging. I’m wearing pink pajamas with little monkeys leaping all over my body. This humor must be catching. … Continue reading ODE to Morning Snow
I breathe in this morning air, inside this house. From the outside, this house is pale yellow and dwells among the last few leaves of autumn. Lavished with gold and orange and occasionally a deep scarlet, this little house sits here with pale yellow walls holding it in place. Inside this house, three small dogs sit beside me on a large red leather sofa. I speak into my phone to record these thoughts at this moment—8:48 a.m. I’m 71. I feel soft. This skin holds me together, inside some bones are breaking down from overuse. Too much firewood for the … Continue reading From One Coast to the Other
Echocardiogram or Thinking of Peggy The tech tells me to lie on the table; she explains that I won’t be able to see the sonar images she takes of my heart; (I will be on my side.) I’m disappointed. … Continue reading Echocardiogram or Thinking About Peggy
For Ben, Spellman, and Jamila 10:17 a.m. July 21, 2022 This life, this moment. I am sitting here in light and shadow, Full of the green outside my glass door. Somewhere a chainsaw, Somewhere a weed whacker, Everywhere birds and … Continue reading This Life, This Moment