One of my fondest childhood memories was lighting candles every night before we sat down to dinner. Mom would usually be the one to light the candle. When I learned how to light a match, she would sometimes let me light the candles. What joy! It may be this early memory repeated so many times […]
Garden of Delight
In the garden of delightI will dwellFor just a wee and little spell Poetry emblazoned on my breastMusic ringing everywhereBluebells gongingJade reverberating in the air In the garden of delightI will dwellFor just a wee and little spell When my eyes close tightWhen it is nightWhen moss fills my mindAnd fern fronds burn bright In […]
Many dreams
I’ve had many dreams,Life’s not always what it seems. So when I awake,I decide to take a break – Break break Break the glass,Smash the goblet,Release goblins, sing you say. Break breakMake makeMake love all day and night long. When you sleep,When you pray,When you swear, andWhen you care Break breakTake take The sacred wine […]
Let my voice be pure
Let my voice be pureto sing the spirits of the stones. Let my mind be rootedwith emerald tendrils into the earth. Let my heart beat in timewith her rhythms and her rhymes. So I may know the savage painof so much beauty all aroundThat my lapis eyes rainSalty tears upon the ground, And I dance […]
The Sage
Happy 2023 to you! What an exciting time to be alive – don’t you think? What will this year unfolding bring to us: individually and collectively, to the Monadnock region, the United States, and the whole world? What opportunities await us to continue to refine our character through meeting life’s challenges with a clear heart […]
Being Light
As we enter this period of increasing darkness in the annual cycle, I have been contemplating what it truly means to hold the light within the darkness. And how we can strive to be lighter, in the truest sense of the world. A Brazilian song I recently rediscovered has given me a fresh perspective on […]
A STRANGE KIND OF MILESTONE
By the time you will read this, I will pass a very significant milestone. Well, two. One is my 65th birthday – which I am proud to admit to. The second is outliving my father, who died just short of his 65th birthday: thirty-eight years ago. His name was James Stephenson, and during the course […]
Take Time!
Take time! That is the message I got last night from an ayurvedic website called Banyan Botanicals. I had googled them about what to do for adrenal fatigue – which I was feeling creeping upon me with a heavy hand for more than a week. Ache in the lower back, around the kidneys. Challenge getting […]
SWIMMING THE HUDSON
A former colleague named Steve will soon be swimming around Manhattan Island. Steve was born the same day as my father. March 29th, so during the years we worked together I always remembered his birthday. Except that my father left this world years before I met Steve. My relationship with my father was complicated. He […]
Cleaning Up Our Junk Boxes
Feng Shui is the ancient East Asian practice of understanding the connection between energy flow and how things are placed upon the Earth and in our living spaces. Like any ancient practice, there are varying schools and different focus of attention within Feng Shui. But one area all seem to agree with is that clutter […]
SKYE'S WRITING 