Hello, children.

This is my last post.
If you want to talk, please e-mail me. You can even ask for my phone number via e-mail if you like. I feel like too much of an exhibitionist posting here these days. Let's be friends of the real sort, okay?

mo.coombs@gmail.com

But I also say this: that light
is an invitation
to happiness,
and that happiness,
when it's done right,
is a kind of holiness,
palpable and redemptive.
-Mary Oliver, Poppies

One day I'm going to be best friends with Mary Oliver. Believe it.

This is, I think,
what holiness is:
the natural world,
where every moment is full

of the passion to keep moving.
-Mary Oliver
from At the Lake

And I said to myself: Everyone is attached to his own lament
as to a parachute. Slowly he descends and slowly hovers
until he touches the hard place.

-Yehuda Amichai
Yad Mordechai

Peace

God has been working in my life like never before.

|I am at peace,
                I am |||free|||,
    I can feel,   | | | | | ||||| |                                                         I can think,     I can forgive,
I can love,                       I can work,                      I can bless,                         I can play|,
            I ||can read,                     I can hear,  ||                        I can sing,                                         I can share,   ||I can help,
                               I can {give},             I can receive.|

 I can be.
I am staggered by everything.  ||  ||||| |
The last several days have been freeing and revelatory.
I'm beginning to understand so many things.
I pray this never ends.

Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing...