Fall’s Calling Into My Soul

Happy Fall Y’all! I hope you’ll enjoy one of my favorite Fall poems (from my forthcoming book), celebrating the beauty of change, and honoring the sacred mystery of the season. As I explore a big change in this season of my life, moving back to Texas to be near family, I find comfort and inspiration in the great goldening landscape of my present home in eastern Washington. As I meditate on questions like “What is Home?” and “Where is Home?”, I think about the people and places that have a special way of reverberating through the depths of my soul. Cheers to the grand sojourn of life! And thank you to those of you shining from the golden goodness and truth of You…through a higher, wider sense of Love.

Photo: (C) 2019 ElizaBeth Coira. A fall hike into the Enchantments, near Leavenworth, Washington, USA.

Whale Song ~ By ElizaBeth Coira

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Gray whales have been washing up on the west coast of the United States lately, and no one knows precisely why…but it’s no secret that we humans, or at least some of we humans, are taking more than our fair share. Over the past month, on two separate camping trips to different areas of the Washington coast, I sadly encountered two different gray whales dead, washed ashore.

Life is sacred, magnificent, beautiful in all forms. Shall we find a better way, for us all, together…

Photo: (C) 2019 ElizaBeth Coira. Gray whale washed ashore dead, near Grayland, Washington, USA, May 2019.