Amy Secrist

Tag: family

  • The “It’s Been Awhile Newsletter” (Such a Classic): and a new-ish piece about violence

    The “It’s Been Awhile Newsletter” (Such a Classic): and a new-ish piece about violence

    Hello, Dear Reader, Lover of Yoga, Poetry, Writers, and (maybe) Music too(?), Thank you for opening this post. I love you. (New-ish piece is below if you wanna just scroll there.) So, yeah, it’s been a while and this is a classic headline for me — and many other people scattered about the world. I…

  • To my Youngest Son on His 4th Birthday

    My dear boy, You are a gift, a compact, sturdy, unbridled, whirlwind of loving kindness. I love when I am caught up in your world and your awareness, your forgiving and your forgetting. You are big, and your name is heavy, borne by kings and lifted by saints, lived by farmers and loved by friends, you are beloved, you are a grand…

  • Christ’s Keeping

    We make this life together, our own dusty prints over the road; our own hands making up and turning down the beds; our own mouths tasting the bitter and the sweet, the salty and the sour; like Rumi’s chick pea and cook, we are each other’s teacher, hitting each other with the skimming spoon, boiling in our passions and in…