Birthday 2026, 47 years

Courage tastes the way

sandalwood, palo santo and copal incense smell

I blow in the directions of all my relations

I use up all the best prayers to 

offer to Creator

and then realize so many more and

so much more are waiting for me

to pick up and ponder before

sending it all out to sea

grandmother ocean, grandfather sky

our parents, our gifts, our sources flowing by

sand dollars scatter over the beach

like so much currency

let go the ideologies

let go the theory and hypothesis

let go ideas and educated guesses

let go 

and settle into silence

and stillness

within

while the chaos ensues

while the fierce chanting for all the 

well known reasons

lifts up into the winds and is carried all 

around and around

and the chaos ensues

while 

I let go

sit with silence and stillness

let the names go

let the identities go

let the masks crumble

let it all drift out to sea

swallowed by waves

and it all dissipates

it all dissolves in the salt water

purified and ready to

take on 

brand new possibilities

Your lips

 

Your lips make shapes your voice makes sounds

I see you and

My heart skips a few beats

Then comes back stronger

Ready to love more

And more

Down to the core

There’s always more

Where that came from

I see you

And my breath is caught

You cannot restrict love

Once it’s set free

Once it’s in motion

Waves from a sparkling ocean

Isn’t that what this world needs more of?

Sent from my iPhone

make them blue for you

I grew a garden

every time I thought about you

hoping at some point you would

see the thousands of plants and flowers

and small trees 

magical gardens

displaying only the colors you like

forest or sage green and deep purple

dark red and silver and gold

12 shades of blue

I'd blend the best shades, baby

just to make them blue for you

so when you were sad

the blue in the star light 

shone down on the 

blue in the garden

and the sadness would inch away

one tear at a time

I would see you slide up to the edge

I would see you lean over the ledge

then I would put my arms around you

I would blend the best shades, baby

just to make them blue for you

Emanations

Dressed in a human form,

she is asked about her origins 

she blinks and stares

cobwebs growing 

between her and her answer

why respond when

nobody believes her

and after so much time

does she still believe herself?

she cannot give the coordinates

to locate her home in the Universe

the Multi verse

the sources of gravity outside

of the earth. 

fantasy has led humans closer to reality

and she must

continue to wait 

for the honesty and clarity needed

to be seen

to be held properly

to be accepted in her true emanation

to emanate broadly

in the moon light

as the stars send messages

only she can read

and still cannot prove or explain

why

but

the universe has been good to me

she muses

as the blue, white, gray sky

passes over her paused in stillness

and a voice whispers:

It does go both ways, you are also

good to the Universe

it is an exchange

an exercise

a practice

a reflex

a reflection

She balances in that liminal space

Between sacred and mundane

soaking in the wild showers, 

with reverence for the rain,

taking in the wildflowers,

releasing all the pain

Gathering Star Dust

Following the trail

left by the ancestors

the dust begins to settle

Stars are shooting by

I am left wondering why

Drifting up into the night sky

I channel the energy 

the consciousness of invisible

invincible spirits

and as I serve others

the energy makes its way

through my vessel

and I receive the benefits of it 

along with passing the benefits on

the blessings are so abundant 

they pile up and spill over

and I am gathering this 

star dust in my bones and blood

healing that which I was told

would never heal

eclipse

the rising moon

casts shadows

while crackling fire flames

are licking at the split wood 

stacked high 

preparing for a long night

she has mysteries

in her cells and 

a lunar eclipse 

opens up the heart

and lets in the light that darkness

only paused

for a few moments

now the deep purple sky 

illuminated by starlight

is a place she knows more about

then she knows herself

honesty and hunger

cascading down

onto the salty tides

water falling on water

waiting for 

nothing

and nothing standing 

in her way. 

Ready: New Chant lyrics

 the wind

the water

the center

the earth 

and the fire

(Repeat 5 lines twice)

Spirit, come here

we are ready

Spirit, come here 

we've been waiting

(Repeat 4 lines twice)

Creator be here now

we offer up prayer 

with all that we are

under the sky and breathing the air

Creator be here now

(Repeat 4 lines twice)

Create a melody to each part and sing it

altogether. Make it easy enough for many

folks to be able to sing along.