Blog – Life Is Swell (FifthFlower)

The Word Breathes Silent

Posted by Sonya Seng on July 31, 2017

Everything spills out these cupboards, so much of so little.
Desires labeled and retrieved, deafening clicks.
Screens burning with news from the long age of man.
Surfeit, sickly, noisy… still hungry. Still scraping.

Shake off the world-fury -- its claws retract reluctant

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Lunch Is Swell

Posted by Sonya Seng on January 16, 2017

The small things in life are swell -- seen close up, they're easy enough for an 11 year old to appreciate. Is that why Jesus said, unless you become like a little child, you can't enter his kingdom? What would it take for you to see the small goodness in life today?

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Life Is Swell in the 'Hood

Posted by Sonya Seng on January 09, 2017

If you take a jaunt around your own neighborhood you might see how LIFE IS SWELL right where you live. Our son captured the good feel of sunny pavement on his bare feet, caught the blue plumbago flowers fluttering in the hedge, and found the papaya ripening in the yard. What can you see where you live?

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Give Joy Permission

Posted by Sonya Seng on January 06, 2017

Give joy permission this year. A spontaneous sunset walk at the beach with family opens our hearts together and we fly. A miracle of moving colors, waking our spirits as the light expands and deepens. We laughed together as we traced the foam-laced sand toward the burning horizon, pausing to watch for the green flash. May this kind of beauty overtake you and I this year, assuring us that Love came first, so we could love, too.

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