Words into Letters

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart….That is really all you have to offer us, and it’s why you were born.  — Anne Lamott

Friendship at 8000 Feet

Friendship at 8000 Feet

Summit Creek, Salmon-Challis National Forest, Sun Valley, Idaho, September 2022   “I want to go back. You know the hike … The one where we saw the moose and her young.”   Had been years since we balanced across that log, made the hill climb up to the ridge,...

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There’s a Pianist in My Hands

There’s a Pianist in My Hands

I feel her … disciplined and precise. Hands that glide effortlessly across Ivory, up to ebony, and back again.   I have no such musical mastery.   Elevating notes and chords, tension and tempo offering an otherworldly rescue From the crowded conversations...

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With Each Breath

With Each Breath

The Sh’ma is the centerpiece of Jewish prayer. As Rabbi David Cooper wrote years ago, “God is a Verb.”  Breathing is an act of prayer…  With Each Breath שְׁמַע Sh'ma “Hear”   Hear …the beating of my heart, the breath of a lover, hear the ocean pound, the hummingbird...

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