For My Brother

Companion from many lives. I recall you dancing before the altar with so much joy.

This time, your dance is one of service and equanimity. And oh, the same smile!

Enjoy your birthday throne, offering blessings to the future embodied in those giggling girls.

Yes, we love you. Just as you held us with your love galaxies ago.

For a Friend Changing Her Direction in the Second-Half of Her Life

Tossed on to the shore, you birthed yourself in the wet sand, incorporating each crystal.

Now, you ask, "how can I push forward with dust as a skeleton?"

But, dear friend, you have been baked and fired! Take your doubt like a reflective glaze on a fully tempered vessel.

It only adds to your beauty.

A Friend with a Back Injury

Hold the elemental sharp places in healing light; honored that their pain has brought us awareness of our own Aliveness.

Reaching out, we lift their burden, returning to the Old Place once again, no longer Warriors.