Two Poems by Amy Leach

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

When Trees Dream of Being Trees The tree decided to stop growing after it grew its thousandth leaf. "No more," it whispered, and started throwing flimsily attached twigs and old nests down, and shaking the birds out. "I am a terrible tree! A thousand Read more [...]

Impossible Blossom

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

I was walking through the nearby park a few days before Easter and snapped this picture. I think the photo is an apt icon for Easter. I like that the blossoms catch the eye first and are pronounced but also how on closer inspection it appears the flowering Read more [...]

A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 7

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Mindful Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for-- to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world-- to instruct Read more [...]

A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 6

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

In light of Mary Oliver's death on January 17, let us honor her life and savor her words The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-- though the whole house began Read more [...]

A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 5

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

In light of Mary Oliver's death last Thursday, let us honor her life and savor her words. Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the Read more [...]

A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 3

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

In light of Mary Oliver's death last Thursday, let us honor her life and savor her words. The Sun Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and Read more [...]

In Gratitude for the Wild and Precious Life of Mary Oliver ~ (1935 – 2019)

Posted on January 17, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes away the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox; when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Christ Climbed Down Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with candycanes and breakable stars Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 8/21/18

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

This story is tucked into an interview with the late American poet Stanley Kunitz. Kunitz has just referred to writing as “an act of transformation, that magical performance.” INTERVIEWER “Frost talks about the poet, or himself rather, as a Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 6/26/18

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

In the town of Mill Valley in Northern California there lives an Irish poet. His name is Raymond. Sister Dolores McGuire met him one day as she walked across the plaza there, where he converses with the people as they sit, stand, or simply pass by. Raymond Read more [...]

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