Poetry: To The New Year
Photo by Sheila Swayze You burst from the starting gate and though I pull on the reins, I hang on for the ride, longing for 1940's snail-pace years when I…
Poetry: Shopping
It’s December, and I go to Mission Plaza to try on different lives. Inside the church, I inhale whispered prayers and notice how others do it. One woman kisses the…
Poetry: Bird-Voyeur
At the rookery, cormorants converse, a cacophony of baby-birds including egrets and herons calling for fish, more fish, more fish. They return yearly to nest over, under, and by each…
Poetry: Chances
Photo by Abed Ismail Each day I get another chance to stay in the present moment, to be grateful for being alive, another chance to give up sugar, another chance…
Poetry: That Longing To See
Photo by Jeanie Greensfelder After the atmospheric river soaks the Central Coast, I picture the ocean crashing over the jetty at Morro Rock. Once the roads clear, though wind and…
Poetry: The Pond at Sweet Springs
Photo by Jeanie Greensfelder Let me stop being this thinking-and-doing person and become the pond at Sweet Springs where mallards glide and egrets feed. Send me into silence, broken only…