In Your Bones

Acceptance is believing truth 

not the truth of someone else 

but the truth that 

lives in your bones 

that tells you 

what you don’t want 

    to believe 

that your life is of 

    your own making 

the little life that came with you 

but without instructions. 

Instructions whispered, spoken or yelled 

through each day of your life 

until all of them make sense 

but shaped with your own wisdom 

because you know the truth 

that lives in your bones.

“Knowing others is intelligence. 

Knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

In the Midst of Turmoil - GRACE - Theme for October 2026

 

Giving is no…….

Reason when there…..

Acceptance is …….

Combining it all……

Each day offers….

“The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.
~ Rumi

24 Hours

You don’t need to run away

You don’t need to cry

Clouds will do that for you

 Their tears trickle down in 

a fine mist or

       full fat drops

Wind blows them away

  Pushes them onto the next 

prairie or woodland

       mountains or out to sea

the sun is allowed to shine

in skies clear and blue

or velvet black with

        star shine and crescent moon

You don’t need to run away.

You don’t need to cry.

“My courage does not depend on the weather.”

~ Mary Anne Radmacher, author

Birds

From above and far away I heard them

Birds!

I’ve seldom heard birds sing

these birds didn’t disappoint. 

Their twittering conversations filled 

the warm spring afternoon, 

rising above the sound of humanity 

on foot, on bicycles, 

orange mo-peds, 

shining chrome and black motorcycles, 

cars, vans and trucks washed 

in the dirt of splashing into spring

Above it all

the birds took my heart to the sky.

“The trills and trickles of song from the birds in the big tree 

above her seemed in perfect accord with her mood.”

~ L.M.Montgomery,  Anne of the Island, 1915

Strength

When clouds bubble up 

from behind the roof tops,  

I wonder if somewhere 

there is a thunderstorm or 

if they are just sitting 

quietly gathering strength. 

From the distance land to sky 

I can only wonder. 

When I work the muscles of my body, 

I feel the soft strength that is me. 

Guy wires that move my frame 

as though I were a puppet and 

I, the puppeteer. I can only wonder 

what will allow me to gather strength.

“It feels good pulling on these muscles, 

it feels better than worrying about who is watching.”

Alain Bremond-Torrent, author

A Spring Day Feeling

April 26, 2024

The sun shone;

ice and snow melted; 

the spring day feeling 

of opening up, 

tidying up and 

welcoming little spaces 

closed up by clutter and 

a long week of a foggy head. 

Housework has never called to me, 

but the bits and pieces of disorder 

nudge my soul and, 

Spit Spot (a Mary Poppins reference)

the laundry washes, dries, folds

is spirited away to drawers and cupboards 

garbage out to the bin in the alley 

as I chat with my neighbour

paper jam in the printer is studied and unjammed

The sun shone and the wind became just a breeze.

“Spring is magic ~ sweet to the senses & easy to celebrate.”

~ Susan Branch, Vineyard Seasons: More from the Heart of the Home

'Til the New Day Dawns

Slow down when the noise 

of the world is too big 

Slow down when your heart 

races down into your feet. 

Slow down and breathe 

calm into your toes. 

Breathe deeply, calmly 

to ease into late evening. 

Close your eyes and sleep 

'til the new day dawns.

“Wise and slowly; they stumble that run fast.”

~ Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus

Tested

August, 2018

Sprouts

from seeds

filled with life

grow as we grow 

in sun or storm 

on prairie 

or mountain side 

our strength tested 

found wanting 

or willing to grow

“…surrender to your experience and 

the softness that keeps you strong.”

~ Jadine Lydia, The Thing about Resilience

@jadinelydia - original poem

Peace

Despite the noisy chaos 

    of this world

peace settles on my heart 

as a dove white feather ~ 

to tie myself to

the rattle of swords, 

the devastation of homes 

is of no help.

Pleas for help rain down. 

I feel overwhelmed until 

I remember my belief in 

ripples of calm each life can offer.

Despite the noisy chaos 

    of this world

peace settles on my heart

as a dove white feather.

“There is peace even in the storm.”

~ Vincent van Gogh