Type: Poem

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“We stand on the shore looking out at what is possible; Turning to the rock from which all life flows.”

Silhouette of a person gazing at a vibrant sunset over a calm lake with colorful clouds in the sky.

“Awash in the radiating comfort / Of this blessed, giving friend”

Person in a striped shirt stands under a dramatic, cloudy sky with distant rain and a bird flying overhead.

“Come, splendid author / Of every satisfied moment, / Of all that is enough.”

a purple and orange sunset glows across a body of water

Poem on parenting new baby struggling to feed 

Adult hand gently holding a babys hand, both resting on a soft, patterned blanket.

“I have climbed up and down mountains / All my life”

A wooden ladder silhouetted against a starry night sky and the Milky Way.

“Life returns itself to Life.”

Two people holding hands, one in a blue top and the other in a white shirt with a small pattern.
“We become / what is burned into us: what / we open ourselves to.”
Silhouette of a person surrounded by countless glowing lanterns in a dark, reflective room.
“Like all of us, he is / dying; like most of us, he doesn’t / know it.”
Silhouette of a woman and a dog touching noses at sunset, sitting on grass.

It should take you there, she says”

Silhouette of a person holding a lantern inside a tunnel with light at the end.

“Mentor me, within the depths”

A woman and child stand by a stone well in a sunny garden with trees and a wooden fence in the background.

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