Meditation on a Grapefruit I was taught to eat a grapefruit, cutting it in half and then using a serrated knife to cut the flesh from the skins of each triangular section. My mother would sprinkle it with a packet of Sweet & Low; her theory being that everything's a little … [Read more...]

I heard the children in the yard, a train, then birds The sounds melt together in my mind and wrap me in a memory that doesn't really belong to me. The children, the generation before me, played by the railroad tracks up on a hill my father describes as an idyllic fantasy … [Read more...]

The patience of ordinary things I have conversations with myself where I coach my impatient, anxious self to hide in a room while life goes on. The temptation to rush to judgement, rush to a next step, to a result, to control, is like standing on the edge of a cliff with your … [Read more...]

Lie down with your belly to the ground Push your head into a pillow, arms tucked tightly into your sides, as you were in the womb. Let the soft earth melt underneath you, flattening your curves and bulges. Close your eyes and let your mind wander into nonsense and euphoria, … [Read more...]

One morning you might wake up ... and remember what it was like to greet your babies, their happy faces, excited to see you, offering joy and exclamatory noises that meant, "I love you with all my heart." You may recall the smell of their sweet skin, mixed with the smell of a … [Read more...]