Tag Archives: Wonder

WONDER

Posted on June 2, 2018 by elainedanforth

Wonder. Do it. Find it. Seek it when it’s the weekend or when you week it. When found, do share– your new, old wonder is beyond compare, shout or whisper as you will but please don’t hide or keep it … Continue reading →

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THE ACT

Posted on May 25, 2018 by elainedanforth

The innocent You pluck that little, by some deemed beautiful, but in-your-face, takes-up-your-eyes and shrinks your space, innocent looking cropped up weed. . . cruel though it be, a wonder the space freed in thee, and legion happy progeny to … Continue reading →

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THE SPACE THE UNIVERSE HAS SHAPED FOR YOU

Posted on March 22, 2018 by elainedanforth

Your task is to fill up the space the universe has shaped for you. Yes, there is that solid place twixt flesh and blood and bones and skin that delineates a thing that everyone agrees is you. But that’s just … Continue reading →

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WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW

Posted on January 6, 2018 by elainedanforth

Whether you for sure don’t know or maybe, in this dreary weather, you really just don’t think you do, how things are, or which way they’re meant to go, try turning from the “I don’t know,” toward the plain “I … Continue reading →

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THE SPIRIT OF SPRING

Posted on April 5, 2017 by elainedanforth

The spirit of spring has asserted itself. The splendid canopy of summer is now our striving up-and-comer, rising up to reach as high as this good year will ever swell. Sun climbs, blooms of alls sorts on grasses, bushes, trees … Continue reading →

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JUST BE THERE

Posted on November 19, 2016 by elainedanforth

Just be there. . . This stickly moment seems to you, as you are in it, so mucked up that it’s hard as it can get, even if the muck is really very far from infinite. . . But, if … Continue reading →

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THE COMFORT OF THE MODERN DAY MUNDANE

Posted on June 10, 2016 by elainedanforth

There is a comfort in the mundane. Funny, though, that today’s mundane leaves me fidgety on a weirdly glowing screen. But other worlds beyond that scene also here become unfurled and the wonder they uncover will one day be seen.

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GOD SENT ME AN E-MAIL

Posted on May 2, 2016 by elainedanforth

God sent me an e-mail the other day. He has yet to get my reply. Both He and I are left to wonder why.

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JUST LIKE THE OLD DAYS. . .

Posted on November 17, 2015 by elainedanforth

Just like the old days. . . something in that particular phrase brings my eyes to tears– Sentimental? And depressed?. . . Well, yes. . . but, in life, this often paradoxical big mess, it also washes me quite clear … Continue reading →

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DEAD SERIOUS

Posted on November 1, 2015 by elainedanforth

Not funny. Dead serious. And full of life, and blood and breath and sweat. Absolutely wonderful.

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