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
night shatters shards cutting the wind dawn is still Continue reading HAIKU
The Standing Rock Reservation lies across the border between North and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic “Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaksa bands of the Dakota Oyate,” as … Continue reading HAIKU
Life is short,And we do not have much timeto gladden the hearts of those whomake the journey with us.So… be swift to love,and make haste to be kind.And the blessing of God,who made us,who loves us,and who travels with usbe … Continue reading Life is Short…