a thank you for you — and your light — Thank you, dear readers Heaven’s manna, being heard You are Grace and Feast — dark Before now crystal caves echoing flames of Afters ©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2021 I’ve been intrigued by the idea of a crystal cave ever since I read Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave when I was 14…

Take a walk with me… — “In the end, we’re all just walking each other home.” Ram Dass The above quote says it all for me. I could so easily make it my entire bio…Except I suspect Quy Ma expects a bit more out of me than this. (Insert smile emoji.)

4th Friday Prompt: Let the Image Lead You — “…when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” From Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address Mighty wingèd mites. Not here to save our day, but to vex it — alighting upon a bowl of fruit, wine diamonds in a juice glass, an iPad alit…

Gather your digital memories while you may — Gather ye rosebuds while ye may/Old Time is still a-flying;/And this same flower that smiles today/Tomorrow will be dying. Robert Herrick Roses at high noon Bathing bleached beauties tanning Paradise cocooned Fragrance lifts Its wings Flight paths of petals for bees Color swirls and sings Cameras clicking Can we capture Transcendence? Ah…

“Mistakes are nearly always of a sacred nature” Salvador Dali — make it dim, make it slow, let’s quiet down, let’s grab our shit and go Franco Amati What if we view mistakes as doggy poop a-plop a sidewalk? Holy cow, we did it again! But so what? What’s important is never to be so cowed we neglect those noxious, harrowing, hallowed opportunities to…

Even on Mars, sunset seeds sunrise — Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a life ~Rabindranath Tagore As age’s rope tightens, balance. Be aware. Time may uncomfortably out-pace us — painting crow’s feet far stretches beyond our eyes, marking hard truths. Yet time tells itself perpendicularly too. …

At the bars — “It’s the real thing.” Coca Cola Company slogan from the early 1970s I am at the bars Drunken, boisterous with joy The real thing — not coke Barred windows entreating me My choice if I’m imprisoned

Are you a frog? An ibis? I’m devoted to being both — Frogs are also known for their ability to leap, which is why they are often associated with new beginnings. AZ Animals According to legend, the ibis is the last of wildlife to take shelter before a hurricane hits and the first to reappear once the storm has passed. Wikipedia A…

Stowed in our souls — memories that no longer hurt but solely instruct — “Betrayal has deep roots.” Father Michael Fish Raindrops in puddles pooling outside the coffee shop’s window – reminding me of canoeing on Caddo Lake, sunlight splashing like diamonds cast from Uranus albeit, for too many years, too many advances ever more deeply into the bayou the lily pads distracted me. …