Category: Autism
Dec 5 – Live in Hope
Cars raced by. I was dawdling, distracted by Caleb’s unease in the backseat as we traveled home from Children’s Hospital. The doctor had listened but offered us nothing to fix the anxiety that c... Read More
Surprise – ‘atravel journal’ – August
What is the nature of ‘surprise’? There is something of anticipation and something of mystery in it. Yet we shouldn’t forget that it can be delightful or devastating, or both. ... Read More
Nightlife – ‘atravel journal’ prayer July 31
Nightlife It is too early, but I can’t sleep anymore, a lifelong reality I have sometimes appreciated more than right now. Caleb is also awake. I can hear him in his restlessness – also a lifelong... Read More
Beauty from Ashes – ‘atravel journal’ July 10
A car alarm yanks me from sleep, because nobody is paying any attention to its yowling but me. I strain, listening toward the other bedrooms, worried that others have been bothered too and hear my son... Read More
Rhythm – ‘atravel journal’ July 4
There is a pulse in our days, sometimes shallow and hard to locate, sometimes rapid and staccato, sometimes strong and steady and sometimes out of rhythm…arrhythmic. I reach for, am calmed by,... Read More
A Way to Travel
I have been looking for a way that feels right to me to tell parts of our story. Writing poetry fits on the whole but one form I came across recently called ‘Haibun’ resonates with me. I... Read More
How you move me
Today is mother’s day — and so poem about a memory of being a mother in the first year that still connects to this year. There was a song sung by Susan Ashton titled ‘You Move Me&#... Read More
Refuge – NPWM – April 18
Today, I came across a poem I wrote 10 years ago. It’s about my son. I tried to capture a glimpse of him in the backyard in the summer. He had come through a particularly challenging seaso... Read More