Category: Poetry
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Bards and Brews
This event was held at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. It is a beautiful place and draws a rich mixture of people. It was similar here tonight. A Poetry Slam I learned is an odd mixture of hip artsy folks and folks that just want to be around those folks. There is a particular vibe…
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Garden Update – Too Much Green
I got to the garden Saturday and the tomatoes were so overgrown that I could not see to pick the fruit. The vines were all tangled and were producing so many stems and leaves that air could not circulate. Not really problems, just the result of healthy plants doing what they do. So I set…
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Alone Together – Guest Blog, My Baby (Audio)
Guest writer. My favorite poet and thrift store buddy. My baby wrote this. She hates that I don’t use punctuation. Some of you have not seen this yet. It was written by my 15 year old daughter. My kids are so cool. Alone – For ages, no one there to hold you…
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The Artist (Audio)
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in Art, Creativity, eternity, Legacy Archive, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry, Spoken-Word, time, WorshipThe artist seeks to construct, enact, or proclaim A construal of Reality and their relation to It They carve out a sacred holy space where Eternity can fleetingly inhabit time The response, the praise The worship, the erupting “Yes” is The acknowledgement of a reality Whose contingency lies Beyond the everyday, the mundane A…
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The Acorn and the Oak
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in Change, child, Creativity, Ego, Faith, Gardening, Legacy Archive, Nature, Perspective, Poetry, Seeds, Self, Spirituality, Spoken-Word, UncategorizedStepping out into a broader space Leaving behind the familiar comforts of the rut But, there I held sway, I was the master Predictable, easy, except for the slow withering of my soul Did my tricks to get my treats But the former was confining and I had out grown it Like a plant in…