The child within sips chamomile on rowboats at tea time in petticoats pulled up to her knees while plucking petals in virgin bliss cheeks kissed by ... Read more
The Evening Sky
In the country, the evening sky stretches as far as the eye can see. It envelopes you in shades of blue and coral awash with watercolor hues of pale ... Read more
The Falling Leaves
Autumn falls gently crimson to gold leaves drift to blanket the earth like a mother’s loving touch tucking her child in for winter’s sleepy ... Read more
The First Stigmata
"Lean on me," she said. He frail and struggling from days on end with no sleep, now thirsty, bleeding. She, a robust woman, strong footed and ... Read more
The Language of Flowers
During the Victorian era, people often gave each other flowers and used the "language of flowers" (sometimes called floriography) to express feelings ... Read more
The Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway
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The Legend of White Buffalo Calf Woman
According to Lakota legend . . . during a time of great famine, two scouts who were sent to hunt buffalo in the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota saw ... Read more
The Soul of the Indian
"My little book does not pretend to be a scientific treatise. It is as true as I can make it to my childhood teaching and ancestral ideals, but from ... Read more
Three Foxes
Three foxes were singing a quaint minstrel’s tune while a wolf stood glaring behind a gold ruin But music has ways —mysterious and sweet— and even ... Read more
Truth
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. —Francis Bacon I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for ... Read more
Water
A pond may lie quiet in a plain; but a lake wants mountains to compass and hold it in. —Joseph Addison Only a fool tests the depth of the water with ... Read more
What Do You Say to a Naked Man?
Today I received a letter from my ex-husband. It came as quite a surprise. It’s been over five years since I last heard from him, and he was the last ... Read more
Who I Am
I am not an airbrushed cover girl posed and poised tousled just right lipstick smudged spritzed with water to go for the glow on skin stretched over ... Read more
Winter Whispers
On westerly breeze come words from afar meant to soften the heart honest and true? only time will tell as yet we are still apart like earth lying ... Read more
World Peace
If there is right in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the home. If there is ... Read more