Love, Words & Poetry

I have two poems featuring birds and music, and love letters where we reflect on how our love grows as we focus on how the other has worked to make us happy. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem pondering the words of prayer, read our love letters delighting in how we have grown more deeply in love since our Marriage Encounter Weekend, look at the differences between chronos and kairos time, and describe an experience of kairos. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Poems and letters on love and blessings. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem imagining a leper coming upon the scene of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes in the Bible. The word of the day is the Hebrew "Berakah," meaning benediction or blessing, and in our love letters we share a quality we see in the other that is a blessing. I close with a poem about the blessing of the intoxicating fragrance of freesias. May words add more love and...

I open with a poem of praise, define the French word "éclat," share love letters that rejoice in reunion after a long day, and close with a poem on the little miracles emerging from the Perseid meteor shower. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem celebrating the influence of birds, delve into the intricacies of timing in music, read our love letters rejoicing in the changes we made within the first month after our Marriage Encounter Weekend, and close with a colorful tribute to the surprising exuberance of bougainvillea. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem on death and how it affects us, share letters on learning to accept each other at a deeper level, and close with a poem of hope based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem describing the pain of loss when we first moved to the West Coast and I realized that my dreams of a new life were not exactly realistic. The love letters I share are ones where we confront how we hurt each other and how we can heal those wounds. Later we began to ask each other's forgiveness every night for any hurts we had caused that day, and that continued to help us gr...

The opening poem reflects on a journey our daughter Becky took to Luxembourg and the Netherlands over a Thanksgiving vacation.  It was odd to think of her in the Netherlands where some of her ancestors had lived generations ago. Our love letters focus on how our relationship keeps improving as our communication becomes more profound.  And the closing poem views the profound effect our visit to Mt....

We open with a poem shaped like a tree, our love letters describe what it feels like to be needed, and we close with a poem investigating the love of children. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Today's poem, "On the Cusp of May"  takes a poetic look at a leap into freedom, while our love letters ponder a leap into the mysteries of couple power. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

This episode gathers up the gifts and joys of spring and summer, in nature, family, and a blossoming marriage,  experienced by the artist-poet from our early years on the East Coast after making our Marriage Encounter Weekend, to the West Coast when our marriage bloomed with three more children, including our son, whose birthday we celebrate today, appropriately born on the anniversary of the Gett...

In Episode 19, I share our love letters looking at my passion for gardening when we lived in New Jersey, the Garden State.  They are bookended by poems I wrote about spring and summer on the West Coast, with a quick glance at the Perseid Meteor Shower. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem that turns out to have been slightly skewed, correct the error in the word of the day, share love letters that wrestle with work issues, and end with a poem singing horseback riding as a metaphor for writing. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I begin and end with the same poem, "Eye Openers," which describes my first encounter with poetry in sign language, introduced to me by our daughter Nicole Son, who was a linguistic minor in college. She explains more about it in her guest appearance on its podcast. She has provided a link to a contemporary performance of poetry in ASL with an English introduction, "Title: Eye Music...

Our poetic bookends describe apparently mild assaults on trees and a plunge into the overwhelming richness of green winters in Southern California. In between, we return to our New Jersey love letters where Wes and I look at how we think our daughters are turning out--they were 5 and 2 at the time--and how we felt about that.  We were serious about raising them well from the moment we first knew w...

This episode includes poetry about Tor House, the home of poet Robinson Jeffers and an explanation of how his home was built, love letters from when we returned from our Bermuda vacation after our Marriage Encounter Weekend, and a poetic reaction to the magical realism of novelist Gabriel García Marquez. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

This episode is bookmarked by poems from one end of the United States to the other, from New York City to San Juan Capistrano in California with a note on the story of the swallows coming back to San Juan Capistrano, and our letters delve more deeply into building a shared spiritual life May words add more love and poetry to your days!

We open with a sunrise poem, look at how we approached prayer in the early days of our marriage, and close with a reflection on hiking Mt. Tabor in Israel. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

We open with a poem delineating the geographical upheavals in moving from the East Coast to the West, followed by learning more about each other in our love letters, a trip to Mt. Rushmore memorialized in a poem, and a vision of greatness in our lives. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem that carries me back to my senior year of high school, and read love letters with deep reflections on the meaning of being a couple, and end with a poem with further insights into love. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

The podcast opens with a poem with Biblical echoes, a word straight out of the Bible, follows with love letters reflecting on our Encounter with Self discoveries and our willingness to listen with our hearts to the other's feelings of hurt and even anger, which led to acceptance and even greater love. We close with a poem of joy at the dedication of our new church after the old one had burned...

Introduction to Lime Ridge and Mt. Diablo in Northern California, followed by love letters with increasing intimacy, and ending with a poem set in Manhattan in the winter, followed by a quick return to summer in Southern California May words add more love and poetry to your days!

This episode opens with two poems, one written during Operation Desert Storm, and the other while on a walk pushing our fifth daughter in her stroller.  Our love letters describe some of the closest moments we had experienced in our marriage, and I close with a poem written when we were visiting the friends in San Luis Obispo who had challenged us to start writing a love letter every day. May word...

This episode opens with a poem and reflection on Emily Dickinson. In our love letters, we risk sharing vulnerable feelings, and learn more about listening with our hearts. The closing poem ponders what might happen in Act 6 of Hamlet. May words add more love and poetry to your days!