Tag: faith

• A Pair of Leaves in the Rain

  

  back inside, the lamplight showed the page in a warm light I wasn’t planning to sketch or even paint today, but the fire-alarms were going to be tested today, and began, so I grabbed my purse, pocket sketchbook, a book to read, pencil, and sharpener that were on my side table. I was going outside […]

  08/22/2022 5:47 pm

  art, beauty, faith, fashion, home, love, lovingkindness, memoir stories, my sketch, nature, poetic, unity

• My Teacups on Display—Yoga with Monet…

  

  The second shelf center cup just arrived yesterday…it gleams so purely on display. I’d looked to find another antique-style cup after my favorite cup I accidentally dropped into the kitchen sink the other day and it broke in half, felt a deep tug of my heart when that happened ’cause I’d loved it, ‘tho no […]

  07/29/2022 9:10 am

  art history, artists, boston, fairies, faith, home, leaving space, lovingkindness, meditative, memoir stories, monet, my photography, self portraits, soulmates, taking flight, tea, teatime, vacation time, yoga

• Your Sunday Picture Book

  

  Mid-morning after we woke, Peeko was napping contentedly on the bed at sunrise. Here he was lounging just across from my living room chair facing where I would sit a few moments before I did (and where he doesn’t usually sit) and I knelt to take this photo of him at eye level before I […]

  10/24/2021 5:12 pm

  angels, books, boston, catholic, english literature, faith, food, garden, memoir, memoir stories, morning, music, my photography, nature, peeko, philosophy, poetic, poets, reading, spirituality, tea

• A Letter To Honor Poet May Ziadeh and Two of Her Poems, Eighty Years Later

  

  Featured again today on the blog with affection💕🙏… for May Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021 after her first poetry book, Dream Flowers May Ziadeh writes: “I hope that after my death someone will do justice to me and extract from my small writings the truthfulness and sincerity it contains!!” b. Feb. 11, 1886 – d. Oct. […]

  10/17/2021 9:53 am

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• What The Critics Said and What That Might Mean To You: Rumi

  

  Ah, refreshment, and fixings. 😊And then comes a pause for reflection… It’s a Libra moon currently 🌒and so I will start with the section I wrote about Rumi, and who was also chronologically the first poet discovered by me of these. From medieval Persia born in the 13th century, September 30, 1207, and best-selling poet […]

  10/07/2021 12:17 pm

  angels, carrie newcomer, fairies, faith, folk music, garden, home, interior design, medieval era, memoir, memoir stories, moon, morning, music, my photography, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, psychology, rumi, spirituality, writing process

• What A Day Could Do, How Fun It Was…Continued

  

  I don’t feel so great, so I listen to my Party playlist on shuffle, without the party or the dancing, just an everyday stroll kind of walk. I use natural New York variable speed walking moves to avoid all people for consideration even though I pass none, and find an open field…where my back begins […]

  10/01/2021 4:45 pm

  angels, fairies, faith, food, garden, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, moon, new york, poetic, poets, rumi, sky, spirituality, sun, yoga

• The Little Pieces of Wisdom I Treasure Which May Be Made of Tissue Paper

  

  Why would I need great wealth when the library is so much fun?  Let me have a few clothes hangers to detangle after a just neatened closet wardrobe. Let me find the empty clothes hangers taking up extra room one by one, and then set them apart one by one, and close the door…go out […]

  09/08/2021 6:36 am

  21st century, boston, catholic, faith, gratitude, library, literary salon we keep, memoir, memoir stories, moon, mother mary, my photography, new moon, philosophy, poetic, psychology, sky, spirituality, sunset

• After Pistachio, A Silent Film

  

  I now present you with my silent film, in the moment written, directed & starred by me—‘After Pistachio.’ And you can mute it if you wish for extra peacefulness. 😊 🙏😊💗

  08/25/2021 6:23 pm

  20th century, angels, boston, catholic, faith, food, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, my silent movies, poets, spirituality

• It’s Tuesday: Get Your Coffee Cup

  

  Well, it’s Wednesday now…but it wasn’t yesterday, when I was writing this. 😊 Today is Tuesday and I realize it would’ve been the day of May Ziadeh’s literary salon in Cairo which began in 1912. The sky was blushing this morning a moment after I woke as you can see in the first photo and […]

  08/18/2021 8:03 am

  20th century, 21st century, catholic, egypt, faith, food, garden, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, middle east, moon, morning, my mystical experiences, my photography, philosophy, poetry, poetry books, poets, reading, sky, spirituality

• Looking Up into Heaven, Not Leaving Yourself Behind

  

  an artwork I’d come across last year * Tea with God and many and you. 🙂 🎶 A song for today’s Catholic Feast Day: The Assumption of Mary into Heaven, with elaborate layers of prayerful lyrics, harmony, dynamics, and meditative, acoustic instrumentation. I find myself moved too, calmly and as if in a time, lifting […]

  08/15/2021 11:05 am

  angels, art, catholic, daughters of st. paul, faith, garden, medieval era, meditation, mother mary, music, my photography, philosophy, poetic, poetry, rose, sky, spirituality, sun, tea

• A Very Good Secret

  

  I found a garden, but it was a secret. 🤫😊🗝 ‘You see this pine tree so ‘small in stature’ that I can almost reach its top? It’s pitiful isn’t it, Bibtee?’ ☺️🧚‍♂️ 💙 * * * I cooked this dinner tonight…a recipe had appeared right up top as I was pressing publish on my ‘toppled […]

  08/12/2021 7:09 pm

  20th century, catholic, celtic, faith, food, garden, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, spirituality

• How about you, Orpheus? ;)

  

  I was careful not to drop Rumi, my shadow soft upon the wall. 🧚‍♂️🌹🕊☺️📕🙏 .~* From Sky to Earth and Earth to Sky, So Little Difference * Previously: Rumi’s Moon

  08/12/2021 1:12 pm

  catholic, dreams, fairies, faith, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, moon, my photography, mythology, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, rumi, spirituality

• Rumi’s Moon

  

  12/8/21 Post featured from the Archive: Rumi continues with more poetry…to linger upon a paper book, this beautifully pure poem photoed with sudden blush…Start the day with this simplicity; pick it like a dream to be within while very much living. Aug. 12, 21 pm I didn’t plan this matching with the altar, my clothing, […]

  08/12/2021 9:00 am

  audio, catholic, faith, garden, gratitude, may ziadeh, medieval era, meditation, memoir, moon, morning, my photography, poetry, poetry books, poetry read by me, poets, rumi, spirituality, yoga

• An Important Note

  I was sending my prayers tonight for many things: COVID cases rising, forest fires, Lebanon and ME trouble, and personal friends I’ve not been near. I sent food with some sales money from my poetry books to Lebanon tonight too in honor of May Ziadeh who loved Lebanon and its countryside and deeply shared her […]

  08/09/2021 8:43 pm

  20th century, 21st century, alexis johnson, catholic, fairies, faith, may ziadeh, memoir stories, moon, poetry, poetry books, poets, spirituality

• My Poems, A Budding Playlist, and a Very Practical Thing

  The eighteen poems I’d written since April I’ve found complete as of last night and I can continue submitting to magazines all of them now as I write more for my next book. There was a storm last night, no thunder, a little wind and rain, and I read my last-to complete-poem with the note […]

  07/28/2021 8:03 pm

  19th century, 20th century, 21st century, ayurveda, catholic, fairies, faith, food, garden, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, mir, poetic, poetry, poets, spirituality, writing process, yoga

• A Post You Can Listen To

  I am talking about my current writing project and the creative process, just under 20 mins, meant to be relaxing. 🙂 You can click the link below to listen to it on SoundCloud completely free. Just to clarify, after I remembered it was poetry month in April coming up, I also forgot awhile and realized […]

  05/06/2021 2:01 pm

  audio, creative process, faith, louise gluck, poetry, poetry books, poetry month, reading, writing process

• Beyond Fear

  Today I took a step away from fear, and into nature. I moved close, closer than before, to the flowers and trees that were here before I arrived at this house, and I tried to create art with my camera. Letting go of fear and tuning into God, I found that the honey bees buzzing […]

  05/26/2014 6:40 pm

  faith, photography

• Why I Write Stories—My Response Surprised Me!

  For months and months, hours, days, and months skidded past me, and I was reluctant to sit down at my writing desk and dream my stories onto paper. I felt distracted by my environment, which has recently changed, but even more so, I felt distracted by my thoughts and motivations. I kept asking myself, why […]

  01/10/2014 4:03 pm

  creative process, faith, writing process

• Trust

  Love is emotional: trust is intuitive.Emotions go on changing every moment — they are in a flux; you cannot rely upon them — but trust can become a great foundation. Love helps you to reach to the place where trust is possible. Without love, trust is not possible. Love is almost like a bridge which can […]

  06/03/2012 2:48 pm

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• Give, Receive, Release

  What I’ve Received:  This weekend brought time with family; my husband and I went to his grandparents’ house and they lent me a pile of books. (You might remember a post I wrote titled Reading Over My Shoulder.  In that post, I quoted from Gladys Hasty Carroll, the author of one the books Grammy lent […]

  04/02/2012 1:25 pm

  faith, music, reading

• Five Minute Friday: Beautifully Brave

  This is my first time participating in Five Minute Friday hosted by The Gypsy Mama.  The rules are to write for five minutes without editing or over-thinking your writing.  It’s like “finger painting with words.”  I wrote this exercise by hand first and then typed it up. ***I am brave.  I am cowardly.  Could it […]

  03/16/2012 11:46 am

  faith, free writing

• Thoughts Over Tea

  I spend the evening with a pot of tea and some poetry.  I listen to water flowing over pebbles, the sound of my breathing, the room dimly lit with the gentle golden glow of a desktop lantern. Early this morning, a cardinal waited for a pause in the snowfall before she left her hiding place; […]

  02/25/2012 12:01 am

  faith, tea

• If I Had Wings and I Could Fly, Well, I’d Still Walk with You

  How often we are angry with ourselves for not being exactly where we want to be in our spiritual lives.  At least I know I have desired to be walking with both feet in heaven, still here in this beautiful, imperfect world, longing to be walking with the feet of Jesus, when I really should […]

  09/11/2011 1:17 pm

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• Surprise Discoveries

  Sometime last year, I took home a library book and when I sat down to read it, flipped open the cover, out fell a worn prayer card.  I had never found anything tucked inside a library book except for the little stamped cards that tell when the book is due, so this was a nice […]

  08/30/2011 2:58 pm

  faith, library, life