Author: Roy Compton

Change my life from barren to fertile ground, how?. How do I attend to my soil? What can lay waste to my garden? The Old Wedge By Eugene Marckx Everyone in the family knew my grandfather was a grump. That might have been partly because we grandkids were always going into his workshop, taking his…

Am I part of it? How do I treat it? Where do I truly live? Endling: A Poem BY MARIA POPOVA I turned the corner one afternoon to find my neighborhood grocer gone. No warning, just gone — padlocked and boarded off, closed for good, a long chain of habit suddenly severed. We know that entropy…

Is it worth loosing something for? Does this dream include others? I got it but do I want it? — from Standing Up             By Tomas Transtrӧmer (trans. R. Bly) It’s been a hard winter, but summer is here and the fields want us to walk upright. Every man unimpeded, but careful, as when you…

What do I see up there?Who’s with me?Are my fears with me? The Boulder The weight is his – been his to haul forever –well not quite that long – when he was younghe kept it – a small stone in his pocket –a part of him never shown to anyonebut how it’s grown and…

How These Hands Can Bless Who Do I Bless? Are my Blessings Unconditional? Is there anyone I won’t bless? "Prayer" by James Armstrong

Getting to the basics. Being what I am Simplifying the Journey doesn’t make it easier. Before Winter By Eugene Marckx Just to go there and breathe that airand see that river silver through the valleyuntil I’m within reach of that peace againwith those people along those roads Just to help cut hay into long windrowsand…

What part of me do I own? What part of me would I disown? Is it possible to Disown parts of myself in a healthy way? Elie Wiesel The Perils of Indifference https://youtu.be/JpXmRiGst4k?si=S4_MAo3Im0GXDdjh delivered 12 April 1999, White House, Washington, D.C. Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to…