Creation

Book of Genesis

09/08/2021

Beginnings of our world, The goodness of Your hand. It didn’t take us long Making messes on land.   Adam, Eve, and Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Ten brothers, and two more, The patriarch era.   Self, curved in on itself: Foolish “drama,” conflicts, Egos, pride, fights and strife, Childish quarrels, nitpicks.   By nature ego…

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Virtual Vacation

07/21/2021

“I need a vacation!” You hear it far and wide. “Too much stress! Too much work! Please give me a bromide!” While relaxing is good, and resting justified, What my heart needs more? Is beauty magnified.   The beauty of wonder seen in a countryside. The beauty of calmness, sunning at Oceanside. The beauty of…

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“June ‘Gloom'”

06/14/2017

Last week, I sat on our back patio at sunrise, sitting in the midst of June gloom. As Californians, June gloom means “the fog rolled in off the coast.” But more, I was struck by the term, “gloom.” I then wrote this poem… JUNE GLOOM   The fog rolls in off the coast, our Pacific…

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