The Edge of Sorrow
“Grief is always, in some way, accompanying us . . .Sorrow is a sustained note in the song of being alive. To be human...
Tag: love
Love Shows the Way
If we think about being thankful one day a year, that leaves another 364 days for us to wake up to our familiar accumulations...
The Art of Appreciation
Love may make the world go round, but appreciation keeps us from flying off into empty space as our world spins on its axis....
A Bird on the Wing
I always took Kafka’s phrase, “A bird went in search of a cage,” as referring to the human tendency to feel anxious with too...
Logging and Clear Cutting
I realized a day or so ago that our society uses the word “logging” to refer to at least two distinct activities. Our forest...
The Blues in Four-Four Time (Poems by Ken McKeon):
The Teacup The day’s done, but doing still, It’s a wrap, A mummified year, Full of slowly wriggling final hours, I could really use...
Monster Mash–by Ken McKeon
(Ken’s poem could be about the search for scapegoats, so ubiquitous in today’s headlines) Frost famously asked Which does one prefer, Fire or ice,...
Balance is a Movement in Space and Time
Discovering a healthy balance in how we feel and act seems to be an on-going challenge. As soon as we think we have found...
Mythic Mountain
We are Elder Brother and our mountain is the navel of the world. To the north and to the south, Younger Brother is free...
Looking Both Ways
We can’t help but compare ourselves with others—their accomplishments, their looks, their virtues. Perhaps we just need to be true to our inner self....