No deep insights or

mystical revelations –

just overwhelming

gratitude and a taste of

profound peace – more than enough.

                                                                                          JDG

Not the swiftest of

folks, I was “kneedled” into

learning the pleasure

of minimalism and

its simple truth: less is more.

                                                                              JDG

If I didn’t know

better, I’d think The Onion

had been hired to

write the text for this chapter

in our nation’s history.

                                                                           JDG

No rush, no bustle –

just a healing holiday

where what was broken

is made new and a grounded

spirit soars with calm delight.

                                                                                     JDG

Sometimes when pen is

put to paper, we’re taken

beyond where we meant

to go and we can’t pretend

not to know what we now know.

                                                                                   JDG

How quickly days change –

grey to gold to grey, then back

again. Neither gold

nor grey can stay, no matter

what those lazy pundits say.

                                                                                      JDG

Letting the quiet

settle into my bones this

morning. Preparing

for the noisy day ahead,

I watch my breath rise and fall.

                                                                                   JDG

Some trees raise their limbs

in fiery protest. Who

could possibly call

them mute when, after all, they

gave their blazing best to Fall?

                                                                                     JDG

We can enjoy this

year’s muted autumn color

or we can compare

it to the blaze of former

years and sadly find it wanting.

                                                                                   JDG