by Leonie Dawson | Apr 26, 2007 | Life Sharings, Uncategorized
Last night I crept outsideinto the darkness of the backyardand lay still for a while.Breathing just breathing.I whisper into the soul of the earth,and I listen, and I hear,and we commune together so insistently, consistently, assuredly,that I began laughing, and the...
by Leonie Dawson | Apr 23, 2007 | Life Sharings, Uncategorized
Aside from:right hereright nowThe best place for morning pageswas dried pearsand a diverted adventureup the long winding roadto Cedar Creek Falls.I didn’t know I had to go thereuntil I went.I sat with my feet in the water for hours there,writing,talking to the...
by Leonie Dawson | Apr 18, 2007 | Life Sharings, Uncategorized
When I was 16, my mum gave me a small medicine bag to hang around my neck. I was living away at boarding school and going through what I called a “grey time” ~ weeks when it felt like grey, heavy rainclouds had covered the sky inside me.Inside the medicine...
by Leonie Dawson | Apr 14, 2007 | Life Sharings, Uncategorized
lenaI have returned, hung my blue cowgirl adventure hat on the doorknob (for now).I have been on 12 plane flights in the last month. Adventure upon adventure. See what that hat does?It is odd to be back here ~ I am still in two different places.More than two...
by Leonie Dawson | Apr 1, 2007 | Life Sharings, Uncategorized
MomentsFlying again. For the too-manyeth time this month. As we leave, I ask for my troubles and worries to be left behind, to be dissolved into the earth. I don’t wish to become one of those tired travellers who close the shutters down over the plane windows...
