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Hello Again.

Well, it's that odd time of year when I start stretching out again and trying and doing and wishing and dreaming new stuff. Yes, Spring has indeed sprung altho we've had oddball weather in the Sunny South. And whoever coined THAT term needs his bottom kicked about! Very warm and sunny and then cold and dreary.

It makes me a little weepy sometimes, these ups and downs, worrying about my art and/or writing and its myriad fits and starts. Seeing or not seeing the parent(s), seeing the niece grown and watching her own daughter readying for marriage, seeing a sibling hale and hearty not so hale and hearty, being in the presence of an in-law that is sheer happiness for the innate serenity and kindness that abounds. And missing a good good friend, but then giggling over her MySpace...

I found this once before and now, lo! it is on Nina Bagley's website.

For Loneliness

When the light lessens,

Causing colors to lose their courage,

And your eyes fix on the empty distance

That can open on either side

Of the sunset line

To make all that is
Familiar and near

Seem suddenly foreign,

When the music of talk

Breaks apart the noise

and you hear your heart louden
while the voices around you

slow down to leaden echoes

turning the silence

into something stony and cold,

When the old ghosts come back

to feed on everywhere you felt sure,

do not strengthen their hunger

by choosing to fear;

Rather, decide to call on your heart

that it may grow clear and free

to welcome home your emptiness

that it may cleanse you

like the clearest air

you could ever breathe.

Allow all your loneliness time

to dissolve the shell of dross

that had closed around you;

choose in this severe silence

to hear the one true voice

your rushed life fears;

cradle yourself like a child

learning to trust what emerges,

so that gradually

you may come to know

that deep in that black hole

you will find that blue flower

that holds the mystical light

which will illuminate in you

the glimmer of springtime.

John O'Donohue

Amen, Sisters and Brothers!