default friend

my sister is
my default friend -
i default to her on
fashion
decorating
activities
vacations
and the life lessons
she has learned
and shares with love -
i also call her
when i am bored

healing

taking in the quiet times
learning to feel peace
a dash of content
a dash of calm
a heap of trust in God

baking up this loveliness
curled up in a chair
with a book
with a coffee
decaf in the pot to spare

lessons i have learned:
how fragile is the mind
i am no rock, no island
after 33 years of trying
there are things i can't control

head against the wingback
eyes now closed in prayer
this healing
is his miracle
his angel Time is here

be still my beating mind

be still my beating mind
you cannot also be a heart
all your upstairs thumping
will not get you the part

safer

because reading is so much easier than writing
and others' thoughts are so much safer than my own

take it back... i want lobster

just like vacations
clean houses never last
both slip by gradually
and
when they are gone
you can't really remember
the going
but i just dusted!
and
where did the week go?
then the dirty floors
and early morning commutes
of life
are back

3

multiplied by 8.73333333
equals 26.2 equals
so many miles to go

marathon training: journal entry number one

i am going to do this
so i can fly to seattle
and drink coffee
on capitol hill
and cry at mile twenty
when the seattle buzz wears off
i am going to do this
so i can put a line through it
on my list of i want to dos
leaving
milk a cow
and
make my own cheese
for later