The Daily Napkin

Most every work day for more than 11 years, I wrote a love note, poem or other inspirational thought, on a napkin – and tucked it in my husband, Marshal’s, lunch – a ritual of the heart. At the beginning of 2009, Marshal started typing them up. It became OUR ritual of the heart to share the Daily Napkin as a blog. Then, in October 2015, Marshal retired, so the whole dynamic changed. I took several months to re-evaluate and decide what I was going to do. The poetry of the napkin is now joined with my art and/or photography images. May you enjoy them. May they feed your spirit.

Year 3 porcupine

Porcupine sits in all her innocenceand peacewhere she decidesBuilt-in hard-wired boundariesprotect her softtickly belly

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Year 2 movie

It's not just a story, but rather a gilded cage that holds the heart hostageonly as longas I am delighted in the telling...In this momentI choose to be in a new movie...

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Daily Napkin for Thursday, November 5, 2009

In the winter circlebreath visible and cheeks pinkedall senses awakenedthere in the midst of tree folkthere where wildnessrise up through our core,love arose from deepwithin our chests a-roaringof righteousnessof life

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Daily Napkin for Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Daily Napkin for Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Down by the riveron a ripe Saturday,purple clouds and azure,happy otter drifting by,feelings swift and fluidflood...Sorrow and joy minglein the eddies of my soulsnags of fear grab atfloating ambivalent flotsam,smile of peace breaks freetakes flight on fluttering wing

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Daily Napkin for Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Daily Napkin for Tuesday, November 3, 2009

At dawning, the full moonpaling on her journey west..Birds shake awake withcrisping leaves glowingnew light awakening..Misunderstood crowscaw indiscriminately --city roosters betweendarkness and light

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Daily Napkin for Monday, November 2, 2009

Caught up in to do'sand forgetting to be,the train of thoughtthundered past reason...There in the wreckagewas surrender,there was hope to be discovered...There the path of peacewas rediscovered and embraced

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Daily Napkin for Friday, October 30, 2009

Not so long ago,he thought himselfself-contained,all right there in onewrapped up package...Perceptions change instantlywith a new lens prescription"Ah!", as a new life dawned..."I am onewith all of One"

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Daily Napkin for Thursday, October 29, 2009

Once upon entering a valley,a woman, involved interior,awoke to unlikely fact:She was being chased by a rainbow...As her vehicle sped, she leduntil phantom color bridgescooted ahead and stood,arched over the road before her..."Improbable, unlikely,...

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Daily Napkin for Wednesday, October 28, 2009

We danced under the full moonthe coyotes yelpingthe fire cracklingthe singers taking turnsand beating the drumRound and round untilwe had merged with earthuntil the last singercould sing no more,my wild heart alive with joy

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Daily Napkin for Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Early sunlightreflected on shinymagnolia leaves,lightly chilled breezetickled the aspen,squirrel bustled paston some kind of mission...Clouds drift by fluffymarking time on their marchto the mountains

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Daily Napkin for Monday, October 26, 2009

Daily Napkin for Monday, October 26, 2009

In this very moment,the treasures of the heartbreak free from bondsplaced blindly in dark placesin the game with blindfoldsstumbling...Like a slow motion novaor the flowering of light,heartspace expands,lighting even those lurkingin corners into bright

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Year 0ne

Playful as a puppy,I ran with the bone of thought:I AM LIGHT!then by instinctin the world of fear,I buried it to find again another day

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