Art
Ann's Fountain: Poem written at Laity Lodge, 2011
Artist’s Retreat, 2011. Ian Cron asked us to go experience water and come back in about twenty minutes. This happened. It’s taken me six years to share it. ANN’S FOUNTAIN...
Learning From Judson
What I Know
There is a sense in which everything important that I know, I know because of Lew and Judson: Because of my sons I know pain and joy I know the...
Learning From Judson
The Given Companion
The Given Companion “How do you expect to get to the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man’s city?” Thomas Merton said. I imagine...
Learning From Lew
His Gifts
I have a first-born son Who is severely disabled But he brings great gifts to me. He brings to my life Sweetness. He looks at me. He fully accepts me...
Learning From Lew
I Want: A Poem Prompt
I WANT I WANT I WANT I SEEM TO BE BUT REALLY I AM OH, HOW I WANT………….!! This week, in July of 2009, I found this poem prompt among...
Learning From Lew
The Poem I Said I Would Never Write
Every mother of a child who is disabled has at least one poem in her about her child, about the smile, the radiance, the beauty, the joy, the gifts, the...
Learning From Lew
Dreams
The dreams parents have For their children Who have disabilities Are different as those parents And those children. One said to me: “I want more for my child Than the...
Poems
Life Plan: A Poem
LIFE PLAN:1972 “Mary Cassett had one Great Romance in her life – her art.” This would not have been said about a male artist Or if it had one could...