No Hard Feelings  Avett Brothers   I have listened to this song nearly every day since I heard about my brother's cancer the words often make me cry tears of so many reasons- so truly true of…

  A child leads us the way  to the daily doings of living he depends on us A carousel one little ride at a time  If you want to see a little video of Gabriel riding this carousel I have…

Distant View   I see you I feel the grass under my feet  and  the sound of the leaves as the wind blows through them you are not far away  unless I try to hold you.   I believed I…

  softly evening comes the sky grows dark darker the moon rises with stars blooming like flowers in an empty field.     Burning brightly constantly changing yet to the naked eye  they remain the same   down below in…

      “Grief I’ve learned is really just love.   It’s all the love you want to give but cannot.   All of that unspent love   gathers up in the corner of your eyes,   the lump in…

  There's a Finnish poem that my friend Aija translated and sent to me:   "We call for him but he doesn't turn around. He's on his way to the forests of his childhood, to the land of blue flowers…