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Winter like a gnawing beaver, our marching, pulpy legs almost giving out. The stark, cold landscape straps like a whip. Dreaming of spring dreaming of color, longing for cherry blossoms fruit plump and flavored, crimson dense,...

There might have been several drinks more than a teenager should the summer skin around us, temperatures orange and red, life cruising fast. We were all about a dare — bottle high out the window my arm poised for a pitch,...

I meet Thich Nhat Hanh between the Terminator and Backdraft. His robes blazing orange, moving like a mobile bouquet of poppies with his tightly formed entourage. When he enters into the que, our eyes meet and my belly jumps like...

inspired by the Buddhist Monks Listen to the rain melt the icy snow Watch puddles glisten with each droplet Think about the grace of kindness compassionate listening Sunday morning yoga Roast carrots Bake corn muffins Quiet...

After ullie-kaye Manicured bushes beds of annuals backyard with a garden of green beans and tomatoes Black shutters on white frame curved cement steps leading to a wrap-around porch edged by rows of spindles I have recollections...

somber, breathless as shadows, settles again into each prayer – suggestive, the way cold and color through long winters implicate themselves miles deep into memories, or old ambitions murmur behind a tumbledown barn. From that...

Lake Superior State University has released its annual list of banished words, celebrating the 50th anniversary in 2026. This year the words are: 6-7, demure, cooked, massive, incentivize, full stop, perfect, gifted, my bad,...

folding one thousand cranes my wish is for world peace we will string them together and wrap the cross with them this Easter my vision for a way to make a difference   Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches,...