A prayer on returning:I plant my feet a little more firmly, roots tunneling deep with easethrough old familiar channelsin the limestone,the sharp chill of flint,sudden wealth of watersdeep beneath.The earth,crumbled and cracked,soaks up the offering I pour,saying simplyHome.I am home.At last.Image of a chipped flint-like gray rock resting on it's side on duty Earth. Image … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 25 →

The threshold holds no answers.It cannot tell me whether I should step through, what I might gain, what it might cost.The door may have no locks or manyor be riven open by some strange claws.Either way there is but one key,found in the flavor of a wordengraved upon the center of my being.Spirits of courage … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 24 →

As with any relationship, sometimes in our relationships with the godden we make mistakes or fail to follow through in ways that require efforts to restore trust and good will. Hence, a prayer to accompany a piacular offering:Cerridwen, Wise One, I would honor you in your many guises, stirring the depths from which wisdom is … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 23 →

A prayer for my Mother:Books are gateways-to worlds, ideas, ways of being and of knowing.Books are people-new friends, old enemies, strangers whose speech we catch in snippets, tantalizing.And some books take on the patinaof the hearts that know them,of the hands that smoothed their pages,of the tears that wet them,a sea salted by longing for … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 22 →

Airmid, physician's daughter,whose grief nourished the seeds of our cure,I honor you.For the centeringIn the familiar rhythms of knife and whisk,In the way Rosemary rises to wrap me in her scent,In the unfurling tendrils of life through loam and sinew.I honor you.For the awakeningIn the sting of the Nettle on swollen joints,In the visioning of … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 21 →

A prayer to Inspiration:Inspiration carries us the most remarkable of places.We taste fruits left too long on the vine, calling out for the ones who grew them;Greet stories twisted beyond all recognition, passing themselves on the street like strangers;Carry the accounting of every word we do not speak engraved like fire in our hearts.Again and … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 19 →

Little living ones, you share my space, witnessing. You speak eloquently of being rooted, of gentle bounty, of drinking in what is life giving around us.I hear you, friends, grateful for the ways your lives touch mine and your simple needs form cornerstones on which to build the small joys of home.I thank you.Image is … Continue reading Prayer a Day- November 17 →