Today’s poem is in honor of my birth mother, Caron McCloud, the mother of my heart, Sue Hoya Sellars, and Spirit Warrior Carmen Baraka, who mothered the women in our community and in the world. These beautiful women have walked on to their future and are forever present in my soul, my work, and the…
Today would have been Caron’s 84th birthday. We are celebrating her with sharing her Obituary and Life Celebration. You can also make new comments here for her, her family, and her husband, Jim Wilson Caron Laverne McCloud POET April 25, 1937 – March 29, 2021 “Like a bird on a wire Like a…
We are going through her portfolio of drawings, some of them being over 60 years old. I am admiring more than ever, the curve of her line. The precision, the arc, the clear path to beauty that her pen and pencil take. Having been at this a long time now, drawing that is, I am…
On the first day of the Hospice interviews my mother Caron was asked by the nurse: “What seems to be the problem?” Mama, smiling kindly, but with a bit of her famous attitude replies “I am having an identity crisis.” To which the nurse replies “Okay then. What about bowel movements?” “Did you know I…
A poem for my mother, Caron McCloud. I wrote this on the morning, of the same day my mother flew into her future on the evening of March 29, 2021 Gossamer Crossing Her identity is slipping across the veil. The very first thing to go were the memory based nouns. Soon the verbs and…
For today’s Intentional Creativity Practice, will you ‘plan’ your creative days on your calendar in 2021? One day a week, two half days, or four two hour blocks on different days. Book your Muse time. Will you? Red Thread Letter #831 Red Thread Cafe, Cave of Stories and Studio Wish List Comment…
Love transcends time, space and place, this love is real, this love is happening now I am a pilgrim in the quantum realm of love ~ Shiloh Sophia Today’s Red Thread Letter includes how I am feeling and a few songs I am loving and a poem called Daily Rituals Become Quantum. Study with us…
Dear One, I send this with BIG LOVE on a day all about loving. While I know many of us don’t want to buy into the hype of Valentines, I personally love a day or week when I can see pink hearts and red roses everywhere I go. A day when the calendar asks us…
This is where it all started, with my mentor Sue Hoya Sellars. When I headed to the hills from San Franciscos for a chop-wood-carry-water mentorship in Mendocino in 1994, I had no idea this would happen… A mentorship that would last one year, and then go on for 20 years. A conversation that would…
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ~ Alice Walker Dear Ones, Solstice Greetings to you, from all of us at Intentional…