Tag Archives: Feeling

LIFE GOES ON– WITH A MIND OF ITS OWN

Posted on April 25, 2018 by elainedanforth

Life goes on with a mind of its own but it doesn’t always tell you what it’s thinking. Unless you listen. And look and smell and taste and feel. You might miss much (or not) by blinking. For, even with … Continue reading →

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HOW ARE YOUR WORDS?

Posted on April 20, 2018 by elainedanforth

Words. They can be cheap as water. . . and as does water, have much weight. Sometimes one waits to find or allow to come the words, but in some corner, somewhere caught there, they come not out– they dare … Continue reading →

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HAND. LAND. MEANS OF SUPPORT.

Posted on March 1, 2018 by elainedanforth

Hand. Land. Such means, which range from well seen to unseen, of support, more vital than such thick walls as bar all possible admittal to the most fortified war fort. Having such strong underpinning often differentiates so much from not … Continue reading →

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ENOUGH?

Posted on February 2, 2018 by elainedanforth

You wring your hands as you take to understand that your best efforts aren’t enough. Temptations calls– “Why not give up?” Breathe deep don’t hold, nor let explode the dearest, most essential you with noisy puff. . . Seek down … Continue reading →

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STAY WITH ME, YOU THING CALLED LOVE

Posted on January 24, 2018 by elainedanforth

Hold steady. you all-inclusive, into my smaller self intrusive, crucial thing called love, Stay with me until I clearly feel and see I can be taller, weller, and of my goodness more profusive, to live at last a life that … Continue reading →

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TO TAKE A BREAK AND MIX THINGS UP

Posted on June 28, 2017 by elainedanforth

To take a break, to mix things up when at one spate, +++++of no matter what it is, +++++it’s come to where +++++you’ve had enough, means take a breath and close your eyes, allow the feeling of your weight to … Continue reading →

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COUNT THE GOOD

Posted on June 10, 2017 by elainedanforth

Count the good– the room to breathe, dependable solidity (yeah, knock on wood). . . But feel, too, the tough– the moments when you deeply grieve, the pains with which you heave and seethe, boot-shaking things that have you shudder … Continue reading →

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PUTTING YOUR FINGER ON LIFE

Posted on May 23, 2017 by elainedanforth

Life you cannot put your finger on it. . . But even if you really could, you couldn’t really hold it there, out of time, on a wing, up high mid-air. . . And yet, somehow, you know it’s there. … Continue reading →

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GIVE THANKS AND CLAIM YOUR PEACE

Posted on April 20, 2017 by elainedanforth

Give thanks. Live and claim a piece of your own peace– to do things else is very apt eventually to bring you flat onto your knees. So palm your palm. . . feel your warmth, your vibrancy and calm, and, … Continue reading →

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SLIPPED THROUGH MY FINGERS, HELD MY TONGUE

Posted on March 28, 2017 by elainedanforth

That does it. Slipped right through my fingers. Held my tongue. Come quips and queues. A sting that lingers. . . No matter– Just calm and lull the present chatter then pause a breath fill up to brim, and void … Continue reading →

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