Journals from the In the Moment Group

Many things can happen in a moment. In a moment of anger, you can irreparably damage a relationship or a reputation. In a moment of insight, you can mysteriously understand someone. In a moment …

In the Moment / In the moment I was a child, I dreamt of travel. / In the moment I experienced Australia, I was born. / In the moment I saw Paris, I lived a dream. / In the moment I crossed the stage,...

My photograph of ‘Katrina’ took 3rd place in the African Art and Writings best photographer/artist for the month. I thank all those who voted for ‘Katrina’ !http://images1.redbubble.com/img/art/...

It rushes over me suddenly / The desperation of things / And knowing I had been in worse binds / Yet somehow always blind to the danger / A danger now settling over me / Treacherous truth / Threatening …

Hands shaking / Blurry vision / Body aching / Spiritual schism / Mind is racing / Body is freezing / To much abuse / And my lungs are wheezing / Shapes are shifting / Colors heightened / Mind uplifted / Heigh…

Boring, meaningless life, / Is that why I’m alive? / To go on without you, / What I got to do? I wake up at 6 o’clock, / Nobody to listen, nobody to talk, / Feeling so lonely, so empty inside, / So he…

His feet are pink and soft, obviously from having spent many years in shoes. No running around bare footed for this man. The veins stand out predominantly, large and blue, expanding out toward…

Susan Vespucci was happy to hear what her dad told her about wanting to dress like a girl since his childhood. When she was seven in a dream she saw the back of someone walking away, ...

I’m amazed at the State of this seemingly complicated system. / That’s so simple, yet we twist it. / I can’t deal with simplicity, or find something real in this mystery. / Who dun it, who did it, who…

My brother Steve and I were on our way to pay labola or the “bride price”. Like many people I had never heard of labola. Steve had some knowledge of it but was unsure how to negotiate the payin…

I have been asked to shoot a calendar for a boston terrier club to sell at dog shows to raise $$ for the Canine Health Foundation. Since my Mom is a part of all of that “mess” I can’t really say no…

I had always known that blindness was a possibility, now it was a reality. I had just left the eye institute at John Hopkins in Baltimore, with the news that nothing more could be done and I wa…

Sometimes when I am all alone / Quietly walking in the forest / Or along the water’s shore / Or on a mountain path / A feeling of oneness overcomes me. So much so that I can / Taste the music of tre…

The trees that exhale into the waning night call for death to lay beneath their branches, / And into that would I give for peace and completion. / Morose eyes do shine on the pebbles in the dew softe…

Filled with emptyness and false joy, with bitter truth and uneasiness for one must walk in the path of darkness to reach the light… Undeserving and hopeful all are, for in the crowd there stands …

Memories of my Grandmother / God Rest her Soul / 12/30/2006 I remember being sick as a little girl. / Lying there on that old sofa in your cracker box house. / The ceiling fan spun slowly not even s…

Seventy-nine times I counted your whispers, / I slammed in your doors, and carried your limpness body. / Turned in your drink, traded your gamble, / In spite of my anger, I gave you my last candle. / A…

Screw the lovers, they can’t handle what we’ve made. / There’re so many others, that shadow you to your grave. / Never ceasing love songs, boom-boxes held up high, / The fire-stripes and fast rides th…