Each month, two friends and I share a haiku we have written with each other. We each write a narrative about each of the three haikus, and then we meet to read what we've written. This is such an enjoyable and meaningful process. And above all, it is a learning process, played out individually and … Continue reading Haiku Narratives: Monthly Discussion
In March, I wrote and posted several "blessings" here on The Profound Bartender. I summarized them for the folks who follow Profound Living, and thought it might be useful to see in one posting. Perhaps also they might be useful to forward to others who are looking for solace, or meaning, comfort, or even joy … Continue reading Counting Your Blessings
The size of a home or how it looks, matters not what's inside's what counts. Source Of All Blessings You bless us with care in times of worry, support in times of fear, comfort when comforts flee. May we care, support, and comfort Those who need these most, In times of worry, … Continue reading Comfort, When Comforts Flee
I am too prideful Monday I lost seven pounds Tuesday I found them Source Of All Blessings You bless us With humor - ours and others'. Laughter at ourselves, our predicaments, Our foibles. Laughter at our situation, its dangers, Its ludicrousness, With guffaws, chuckles, winces We physically relax and let go. Our worries … Continue reading We Are Blessed With Humor
Stay with me a bit, hummingbird so beautiful. Stay. My heart still smiles. Source Of All Blessings You bless us with long lines and waiting to teach us patience, with uncertainty to teach us humility, with isolation to teach us contemplation and the time to watch hummingbirds come and go and … Continue reading Thank You For The Lessons Of Life
Rotate Methodist You get: tisdohteM. Oddly Still, it's all the same. Source Of All Blessings You bless us with churches and schools and hospitals, our sources of faith, learning, and care in good times and bad, in stability and in chaos. Their form might change, their delivery of love, and lessons, and caregiving … Continue reading Form, Delivery, Purpose, Substance
An old, red brick house Sitting small on scrabbley grass It was home to me Source Of All Blessings You bless us with time to reconnect to self, family, Friends, purpose, and meaning. May I fill this lacuna with memories, reflections, insight love, generosity, and renewed commitment to spending more of my life doing … Continue reading Growing Up In Kansas
Anxiety, fears Three birds wing by, silhouettes now my mind is clear Two geese pace. They walk Our neighbor's driveway their pond entering into spring Nest sitting alone Branches bare, solitary The leaves are coming Grasses' birth canal Roots in utero-cycling Pushing from Earth's womb The morning birds sing spring buds on empty branches hope … Continue reading Entering Into Spring
Generosity Compassion and gratitude and loving kindness Source of all blessings You bless us with shelter, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual when the winds of the world beat down when the storms of plague steal into the night looking for us. May I recognize God's hand May I grasp Your divine arm, … Continue reading In This Crucible Of Life And Death
Along the Boise trails Two women talk on cell phones Missing the deer tracks Source Of All Blessings You bless us with socks. My feet are always cold, it seems and socks warm them and I cuddle with myself under a toasty electric blanket and feel some disquiet for those who aren't as … Continue reading Deer Tracks and Socks
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