Skye Stephenson
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Garden of Delight
In the garden of delightI will dwellFor just a wee and little spell Poetry emblazoned on my breastMusic ringing everywhereBluebells gongingJade reverberating in the air In the garden of delightI will dwellFor just a wee and little spell When my eyes close tightWhen it is nightWhen moss fills my mindAnd fern fronds burn bright In Continue reading
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Many dreams
I’ve had many dreams,Life’s not always what it seems. So when I awake,I decide to take a break – Break break Break the glass,Smash the goblet,Release goblins, sing you say. Break breakMake makeMake love all day and night long. When you sleep,When you pray,When you swear, andWhen you care Break breakTake take The sacred wine Continue reading
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Let my voice be pure
Let my voice be pureto sing the spirits of the stones. Let my mind be rootedwith emerald tendrils into the earth. Let my heart beat in timewith her rhythms and her rhymes. So I may know the savage painof so much beauty all aroundThat my lapis eyes rainSalty tears upon the ground, And I dance Continue reading
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The Sage
Happy 2023 to you! What an exciting time to be alive – don’t you think? What will this year unfolding bring to us: individually and collectively, to the Monadnock region, the United States, and the whole world? What opportunities await us to continue to refine our character through meeting life’s challenges with a clear heart Continue reading
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Being Light
As we enter this period of increasing darkness in the annual cycle, I have been contemplating what it truly means to hold the light within the darkness. And how we can strive to be lighter, in the truest sense of the world. A Brazilian song I recently rediscovered has given me a fresh perspective on Continue reading
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A STRANGE KIND OF MILESTONE
By the time you will read this, I will pass a very significant milestone. Well, two. One is my 65th birthday – which I am proud to admit to. The second is outliving my father, who died just short of his 65th birthday: thirty-eight years ago. His name was James Stephenson, and during the course Continue reading
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Take Time!
Take time! That is the message I got last night from an ayurvedic website called Banyan Botanicals. I had googled them about what to do for adrenal fatigue – which I was feeling creeping upon me with a heavy hand for more than a week. Ache in the lower back, around the kidneys. Challenge getting Continue reading
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Be a Tree
Happy Springtime: flowers and buds, downy chicks and fluffy bunnies, golden slants of sunrays, some drops of rain. What a promising, and potent, time of the calendar year. Nature puts on her new garments and parades them for all the world to feat upon: with our eyes and in our souls. Springtime can also be Continue reading
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Those We Have Lost
Loss is a natural part of life, of all life. It is the other side, the necessary complement of birth and creation. But sometimes loss, certain kinds of loss, can feel raw and chaffing, unresolved and aching, painful and disconcerting. We may try to put a band aid upon this wound, hoping to cover it, Continue reading
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What Nourishes You Soul?
What is your soul food? I don’t mean the food that feeds your body. I am referring to what nourishes your soul. Now is a good time to consider this question, with the start of a New Year, chronologically speaking. What a year 2021 was for all of us, just about the entire human race. Continue reading
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