I’ve started rising early again. I’ve been an Early-to-bed /rise person most of my life. In recent months I found myself sleeping longer, sometimes over nine hours. It rendered me groggy for the first hours and I knew those hours were not productive sleep. For the past few days I am up at five. I […]
Tag: Soft mornings
Until we meet again…
Sunday in Church , I prayed for an end to my sister’s suffering. The cancer and the treatments had ravaged her body. She was afraid to die and very sad. I could feel the passing would be soon. I was already very sad as it was it was the anniversary of my oldest son’s death. […]
Black n Blue
Face first between rooms Knees greet porcelain cold floor- Family called me “Grace.”
Look through any window…
Shards of sun rise blazeRace across the bedroom wallBlue curtains, blue sky. ©Nancilynn Saylor 29 November 2017
Creamsicle sky
Sky explodes in orangeCold Thanksgiving morning Gratitude abounds Nancilynn Saylor Thanksgiving 2017
Deep purple
Winter coaxes FallTo move aside, rest nowLast of our aubergines! © Nancilynn Saylor17 November 2017
Indra’s net or six degrees of separation
It has been six weeks since my fiftieth high school reunion. I had the pleasure of staying a day with friends in the small town of Floresville,Texas about 30 miles southeast of San Antonio. Bonnie and I were buddies our Senior year, eating lunch together almost every day, along with Claudia, another friend. We were, […]
Another broken morning
They did not know when they brushed their teeth and washed their Sunday morning faces … To join with their friends in worshipTo be in a house of the Lord As they filed into their small whiteunassuming, country church greeting each other with smiles on a bright Central Texas dayMen shaking handsWomen nodding to one […]
“Ain’t it foggy outside…”
Wet fog blankets airSwirls and dances in headlightsDeer family steps back… ©Nancilynn Saylor1 November 2017
Summer slips away
Serranos dangleNorth wind dances in fallen leavesFirst freeze comes early ©Nancilynn Saylor 27 October 2017
Nancilynn is Writing again 