Tag: beingness
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Always With You

~ a vignette ~ Hues of pink and purple, yellow and orange rise above the horizon, displacing the darkness of night. The twinkling lights fade into the brightness. Everything we were, everything we had, like that shining sun. Even on rainy days we danced. Life may have taken us to unexpected places, but love always…
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Odd-Shaped Doorway

~ a vignette ~ Clouds filled the sky. Dark and stretched out like melted pencil lead leaking across the top third of a painting. The bottom third displayed unmoving treetops as if someone pressed pause on the sky’s remote control. The middle though was fluffy and bright white with a short, elongated triangle of celestial…
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Procrastination Befriends Excuses

~ a vignette ~ The sunroom was thick and heavy. Though the sky had opened and shed rapid tears, the humidity remained. The oscillating fan swiveled my direction every sixteenth second, teasing me with a soft, warm breeze. I reached for my iced tea, condensation speckling the glass like droplets of water on my body…
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The Contemplative Practice of “Maybe”

A Vignette:Birds of a Feather Sliding my lunch plate toward the center of the patio table, I leaned back in the chair. Elbows perched on the armrests, legs propped on the table’s edge. I stared toward the empty street lost in thought. Tickling fingers brought me back to awareness as I caught myself circulating their…