They had Simple Names,
Katie, Maggie. Their Lives Light
The Generations
Maggie Kaufman Shetler 1876-1932
Katie Cook 1935-2023
Archive for the Spiritual Category
Posted in Family, History, LIght, Spiritual with tags Light the Generations, Simple Names on March 12, 2023 by blglick
Posted in Death, History, Love, Memories, Philosophical, Spiritual with tags finding our way, Grief unpacks it's bags on July 30, 2016 by blglick
Grief Unpacked Its Bags,
A Sudden and Unwanted Guest
With No Plans to Leave
A Sudden and Unwanted Guest
With No Plans to Leave
Loss on Every Shelf
Sorrow in Every Drawer
Pain Beneath the Bed
We Could Not Quite Breathe
Wondering if That Moment
Might Not Ever End
But Time Does Still Pass
And Grief Turned Towards Us With
All Its Open Heart
And We Also Found
Among the Sorrow and Loss
A Shining Honor
The Consolations
Of Shared Memories, the Breath
Of Persistent Love
So It Turns Out That
This Life is not Perfect and
Grief is not a Guest
But Our Souls do Rise
To Every Occasion and
Our Hearts Will Reach Out
And We Will Carry
Honor, Memory, and Love
As We Find Our Way
Posted in Moon, Spiritual, stars with tags Meaning of Moon and Stars on April 5, 2016 by blglick
Look at the Moon and
Stars As If they Mean Something
And Perhaps They Do
Posted in Spiritual with tags Pray for Small Changes on April 1, 2016 by blglick
It’s the Kind of Day
To Pray For Small Changes, to
Not be Moved Too Much
Posted in Death, History, Love, Memories, Spiritual, Tri-ku with tags Before and After, Flung Forward By Time, That Line on January 12, 2016 by blglick
Flung Forward By Time,
Willed Life Shattering Into
A Kind of Foundling
It Seems Impossible.
This is Real And That Is Not,
Then Followed By Now
Before and After,
Always Together, Always
Apart, And That Line.
Posted in History, Spiritual with tags Surprised by Circumstances on November 24, 2015 by blglick
Frequently Surprised,
Still, By Joy, By Sadness or just
By Circumstances
Still, By Joy, By Sadness or just
By Circumstances
In Memoriam, Joe DiJulio
Posted in Death, Love, Spiritual, Tri-ku with tags Heavy Heart, Some Little Longer, Tarry Here on July 31, 2015 by blglick
He Has Gone Ahead
But You Must Tarry Here for
Some Little Longer
But You Must Tarry Here for
Some Little Longer
Between Now and Then
On That Long Bridge Between Loss
And Recovery
A Heavy Heart is
Still a Sacred Vessel Filled
With Enduring Love
Posted in Fog, History, Morning, Snow, Spiritual, Trees, Tri-ku with tags Fog of Prayer, Snow and forgiveness on November 26, 2014 by blglick
A Morning Fog Floats,
Quiet as a Silent Prayer,
Into the Tree Tops
A Fog That Softens
All Sight and Sound and Maybe
All We Think We Know
Snowflakes Drifting Down,
Gently as Forgiveness, to
Shroud Every Sharp Edge.
Posted in Frustrations, Snow, Spiritual with tags Snow like dreaming on November 13, 2014 by blglick
Snow Falls Like Dreaming
Talking to Myself, Believing
Not a Single Word
Posted in Autumn, Night, Sky, Spiritual, Tri-ku with tags Divinity, fall on October 5, 2013 by blglick
Summer’s Labors End
And The Lord puts Aside His
Godly World Making
The Divine They Sees
That it Is Very Good And
Sighs a Divine Breeze
And Sings Her Delight
In Blue Skies and Bright Leaves,
Cool Nights and Warm Days
A Year in Haiku 