We live on a planet that is a thin place - a place where time and light continually intersect. And yet we are taught to experience life as thick. When we move intentionally through the thickness that surrounds us and perceive Light, we can begin to punch peep-holes into and through Time.I, as poet, live a solitary 4-P journey with the partners of Prose, Poetry, Photography and Prayer. In my journey of Time and Light, I've learned that I can free myself from the ballast of ordinary Time and soar in the Light. This is Time Travel for me. The most redemptive partner of my four is poetry. The process seizes me, and I become consumed by the emerging poem until it is complete. Poetry and prayer are closely related, at times with a loss of boundaries. I have written poetry since I was an eight year old girl on the Canadian prairies. I simply cannot imagine life without poetry.Orchids and Neurons is an exploration of poetry as molecular and metaphysical, as highly musically-patterned and ontological. The poet is a simply a medium used in a complex process.In this recent body of work, may you discern my process and see yours. I'm passionate about literature and confess to an almost lifelong love affair with the muse. It's a given, then, that I'm an introvert and spend much time living in my head. I was raised in a family that loved music, literature, compassion, humour and the spiritual. And it was a family that acknowledged and lived the copious complexities of family dynamics. My entire childhood took place in the cauldron of the Saskatchewan prairies, a harsh, isolated province in boundless Canada.Living my adult life in the far more cosmopolitan southern Ontario, my vocation of motherhood and various careers as teacher, social worker, private counsellor and website designer became further fodder for my writing. I perceive writing as the energetic combination of attention, imagination, eccentricity, music, perception and solitude.
