My Baby

My baby, she has many faces, and the one she turns to me shines the light of Heaven.

My baby, she has so many faces, laughing, crying, smiling, angry, wondering, frightened, hungering.

My baby, she has eyes of 8-ball size, and they cue me into what’s real, man, and what’s real is my baby.

My baby talks to me, sings to me, cries to me, clings to me, and when her head falls onto my chest, dreams with me. Read more

9/11

Seven years today. I have such conflicting feelings and memories about it now. Often, it seems as if it happened in another life. I guess, in a way, it did, as we have made a new life somewhere else now. Read more

Goodbye

It’s time to say goodbye.
Goodbye to all I’ve been.
Goodbye to all the whens and wheres the hows and whys I’ve seen. Read more

Connecting - Friends

Sometimes life comes at you like a boxer in the ring. No matter which corner you’re in, you get a face full of glove and a bloody nose. You’re grabbed and held, Read more

Me Be Me Be Me

Life is cutting through me–
Lightning slicing the clouds.
I’m drenched!
I can’t see the way out of this storm;
I can’t find it alone. Read more

Grateful - Daughter

Her face, borrowed from an angel,
To whom she’ll fly one day,
But for now her shine will warm my own. Read more

Tough Day

Today is a tough day.
I’ve had a setback. I’ve had the rug pulled out from under me.
I’m the recipient of an unpleasant suprise package.
This is tough. This is really, really tough. Read more

Gratitude - My Wife

I’m grateful for the fact you stay
I’m grateful for the things you say
I’m grateful for the games we play
I’m grateful that we spend the day Read more

Grateful - Hearth and Home

It has been a great weekend. Saturday, we were up and out the door early, to help friends move. Their new home is beautiful. Our friendship is new, and developing, and they are nice people. His wife is having a baby, and we are looking forward to watching our children grow together. After the work was done, we ate together, talked, and enjoyed each other’s company. Read more

Set Yourself Free

It’s easy to drift off, lose your way and become drowned in the negative. That is exactly what it is like. Being in a boat, which had been secured to the shore, or on the course you set. Then, somehow, slowly, without your realizing it, the boat is adrift and you feel you have lost control. The boat now seems to go where it will, pushed here and there by the tide, by crashing waves and all you can do is weather the storms into which you are driven. Read more