Category: Hope

Tall rose bush (tree?) with yellow roses in full bloom.

Rose-petal rain in the morning sun

May 4, 2017
Rose petals rain down in the morning sun Does the mother bird know... What a sweet-smelling home she builds in the tree? Does the 12-foot rose tree know... It is supposed to be a bush?...
view over bay on Camano Island in Washington state. Photo by Jeffrey Lemkin

Dealing with the grief

January 25, 2017
Everywhere I turn I am confronted with this madness, this threat, the weight of this new reality, that feels like a science fiction novel. The source of all this misery is in my face every day. He means to hurt my family, my friends, and people I don't know....