I write what refuses silence
· Life & Place
In August 2025, I housesat for Tish & Dave in Cerrillos, wrote in the high desert, and found exactly the stillness that gave Echoes in the Desert Homestead room to arrive.
Paired Poem
Echoes in the Desert Homestead
· Travel Journal
Returning to Santa Fe in August 2025 was less a victory lap than a reckoning: difficult months behind me, familiar light ahead of me, and the first real sense that home could begin doing its work again.
Paired Poem
A New Dawn in Your Journey
· Relationships
July 2025 clarified friendships and boundaries: who could hold the hard truth with me, who preferred the polished version, and what honesty cost or protected in that season.
Paired Poem
Echoes of Harmony
· Reading
I do not recommend Rilke at 3 a.m. unless you are prepared to feel things you don't have vocabulary for and then lie awake doing inventory on your life. I recommend him anyway.
Paired Poem
Echoes in the Gale
· Reflection
I looked at a photograph from ten years ago recently. Same face, more or less. But something fundamentally different in the eyes — the absence of certain urgencies I used to carry everywhere.
Paired Poem
In the Hush of Dawn, Metamorphosis
· Recovery
June 2025 was about receiving support without apology: letting trusted people help in practical ways and learning that being carried for a while is not the same thing as being diminished.
Paired Poem
Unyielding Hearts United
· Reflection
I have a complicated relationship with the word "wisdom." It gets used so often as a consolation prize — as if the lesson somehow justifies the cost of the tuition. Sometimes pain is just pain.
Paired Poem
Wisdom Through Pain
· Travel Journal
The Barcelona return needed its own page because the final morning at the cathedral changed the tone: one quiet stop in the Gothic Quarter before the flight home closed the chapter.
Paired Poem
Whispers in the Silence
· Travel Journal
Barcelona in April 2025 was a fast bright opening to the cruise: favorite cousin, Laure, Donna and John, Connie and Dave, new friends Emily, Denise, and Rachel, and that unforgettable elevator story on night one.
Paired Poem
Journey of Belonging