The Fish Stinks

 

Gold

 

Where Do I Belong?

 

Prayer For The Possibilities

Art by Mike Cockrill

Blessed One-ness,

We have raged

We have despaired 

We have witnessed 

We have fought

And now we know

The Bad Guys can lose

The Good Guys can win

And we can survive

And we can flourish. 

We pray for

Life and Liberty 

And The Pursuit of Happiness

We pray for a country

Where all people are created equal

We pray 

For the strength to defy evil

For the spirit to live within God’s complex image

For the mind to imagine the possibilities. 

Happy Fourth of July!

Amen

Just Saying

Blessed Holy Wholeness,

No lead is too big

No guard is too small. 

Fascists bound to lose. 

Amen

Prayer for Orphans

Blessed Fierce Mystery,

Those of us who know

Know this:

Until you are an orphan 

You are a child. 

Whatever your age

Whatever their age when they died. 

Those of us who remember 

Remember this:

Nobody will ever love you

Like they loved you. 

Even if they didn’t 

They did. 

Those of us who grieve 

Grieve this:

We are alive because they lived

Mommies

Daddies

We weep and we give thanks. 

Amen 

Prayer On Learning I Have AD(H)D

 

I’m old and a girl and no one told me

My brain is weird

But, apparently, it is 

And always was. 

Blessed Holy Wholeness,

I know what I have to do,

I know how to do it. 

I want to do it,

But then I don’t.  

I really want a clean home,

I have many closets and cupboards.

I have time to clean,

But I don’t. 

I have phone calls to make and

Important papers to hand in. 

It’s not rocket science, 

But I don’t.   

My feelings feel so huge 

And they must be expressed. 

I’m told to calm down

But I don’t 

I know I’m rude,

When I see patterns and truth. 

I try to shut up

But I don’t. 

My friends talk too slowly,

So boring. 

I try not to interrupt 

But then I do. 

I’m so tired of being annoying 

But I like being quirky.

Tell me what to do, I might even do it

But probably not.  

I give thanks for this diagnosis,

It’s interesting. 

Amen

A Prayer for Contradictions

Art by Mike Cockrill 

I am always in opposition  

To whatever I’m supposed to feel or think.

I am bitter so I insist on sweet,

I am sweet and it pisses me off.

I find it impossible not to always see the answer 

And its opposite:

It is my talent and my curse.

It is being Jewish,

It’s being a woman,

It’s being old.

Despair

And Rejoice!

Amen

Prayer For The Little Girls

Blessed Holy Wholeness,

This prayer is for the little girls who go to school,

The ones who learn

The ones who teach

The ones who have fun

And the ones who share. 

This prayer is for the little girls who died in school 

From the bombs of war

From the lack of funding 

From the men who rape

And from being sent away. 

This prayer is for the little girls who love school,

The ones who ask questions 

The one who defy authority 

The ones who organize 

And the ones who won’t shut up.  

May they be safe. 

May they survive. 

May they flourish.

 Amen

For those celebrating

For those celebrating Christmas, lots of love to you all, have a wonderful happy merry jolly time!

For those of us doing Chinese food and movies, enjoy!  (I miss double features.)

For those only doing the winter solstice, may you have light in the dark and dark in the light!

For those celebrating this time of year by kidnapping people with no due process, cutting off SNAP, Medicaid and subsidies for health insurance , trying to destroy free speech, trying to send this country back to Jim Crow and no votes for women, bombing children, I wish I believed in Hell so I could imagine you roasting in it.  May you be thwarted in all your endeavors.