Category Archives: Daily Offerings

 Hours I have known hours built like cities, House on grey house, with streets between That lead to straggling roads and trail off, Forgotten in a field of green; Hours made like mountains lifting White crests out of the fog … Continue reading →

Desiderata Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, … Continue reading →

If You Forget Me I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire … Continue reading →

You Shall Be My Roots You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when … Continue reading →

Time Passes Time too is afraid of passing, is riddled with holes through which time feels itself leaking. Time sweats in the middle of the night when all the other dimensions are sleeping. Time has lost every picture of itself … Continue reading →

A Song From The Suds Queen of my tub, I merrily sing, While the white foam raises high, And sturdily wash, and rinse, and wring, And fasten the clothes to dry; Then out in the free fresh air they swing, … Continue reading →

What is True one must be one to ever be two and if you were a day I’d find a way to live through you ~ Ben Kopel

Wine Tasting I think I detect cracked leather. I’m pretty sure I smell the cherries from a Shirley Temple my father bought me in 1959, in a bar in Orlando, Florida, and the chlorine from my mother’s bathing cap. And … Continue reading →

Around Us We need some pines to assuage the darkness when it blankets the mind, we need a silvery stream that banks as smoothly as a plane’s wing, and a worn bed of needles to pad the rumble that fills … Continue reading →