You spend your childhood learning how to be brave. You spent your adulthood learning how to fear. Beware. I am fearless. Therein alone lies my power. In a vast surrender lies my only strength. Between […]
L’aveu
Et vous avez supposé que vous me connaissiez… Avez-vous déjà regardé profondément dans mes yeux? Avez-vous placé votre paume ouverte sur mon coeur? Avez-vous pas demandé à mon intensité tranquille, ma sensibilité intelligente? Il a […]
Avowal
And you thought you knew me… Did you ever look deeply into my eyes? Have you placed your open palm upon my heart? Have you not wondered at my quiet intensity, my intelligent sensitivity? It […]
Grace
‘There but for the Grace of God go I.’ Have you ever said that to yourself? Or thought it? Maybe you deny God, and have no concept of Grace; so you say to yourself instead, […]
Le brouillard
Querida N – Malgré mon apparente négligence, je ne vous ai pas abandonné. Aujourd’hui âgée de 66 ans, pour la première fois depuis des décennies, ma santé, mon cœur, et mon esprit se sont beaucoup […]
Bearings
You claim ‘depression’; claim, instead, adaptability, irrepressibility, resilience. So you are messed up; disoriented, somehow, unsure, unclear. Pause. Find your centre. Get your bearings. Change something. It may have to be something big. It usually […]
Recollection
Abandoned at age seven, left on my own, cut adrift, denied both roots and destination, unable to find my way back to anything familiar… Despite and still, I did not just grow up. I raised […]
