Holiday time
Our days in this part of the world are getting darker, light leaving little by little as we sit on the cusp of the winter solstice. I...
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sabrina lloyd
- May 31, 2021
- 1 min
Monday's poem
Painters Muriel Rukeyser In the cave with a long-ago flare a woman stands, her arms up. Red twig, black twig, brown twig. A wall of...
sabrina lloyd
- May 28, 2021
- 1 min
Dear Friday,
It's been a good week. Busy, and full. I am taking three art classes and getting so much out of each. Feeling more free, trusting my...
sabrina lloyd
- May 24, 2021
- 1 min
Monday's poem and life lately
I missed the Dear Friday last week. There are not enough hours in the day. One child homeschooling, one virtual learning. Cooking and...
sabrina lloyd
- May 17, 2021
- 1 min
Monday's poem
by David Whyte Ten Years Later When the mind is clear and the surface of the now still, swaying water slaps against the rolling kayak, I...
sabrina lloyd
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Dear Friday,
Another week filled with art and music, nature, my children's laughter and sometimes tears. Kenya is out of lockdown, cases have fallen,...
sabrina lloyd
- May 10, 2021
- 2 min
Monday's poem and my life within it.
Yes, we have all read it, all heard it. Yet still the power of this poem! I was an actress in NYC. My career was full. I was content-ish....
sabrina lloyd
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
Dear Friday,
I've watched too much news. I sleep and dream of those suffering in India, the faces caught on cameras gasping for breath. The only...
sabrina lloyd
- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min
Monday's poem
This one is by my dear friend Joel McKerrow. You must go and visit his HUMAN exhibition. It's art and poetry and music, and profound....
sabrina lloyd
- Apr 23, 2021
- 1 min
Dear Friday,
The rains are here; Dampness has moved in. Sweaters unearthed from the very bottom of drawers. Blankets accumulating near all sitting...
sabrina lloyd
- Apr 21, 2021
- 2 min
The drawer of things that didn’t work out
About six months ago I learned how to knit. Sitting in front of online videos I stitched and stitched until my fingers bled and my dreams...
sabrina lloyd
- Apr 16, 2021
- 1 min
Dear Friday,
I turn on my computer to see there has been another mass shooting in the States. I turn on the TV and see a news special about all the...
sabrina lloyd
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Monday's poem.
A very famous one, probably familiar to you all, from Mary Oliver. It seems to fit the moment well and I love revisiting it. I seem to do...
sabrina lloyd
- Apr 10, 2021
- 1 min