Hello

dear fellow human being!

Here I sit, on this sparkling January day in Portland, Oregon at the very beginning of 2022, imagining who on earth you might be – of all the possible “you’s” who might be reading these words, wherever and whenever you happen to alight on this page. Even for such a humble, untraveled site as this, the possibilities are mind-boggling…

Anyway, whoever, wherever and whenever you are, here is my wish for you this year and ongoing:

May you find what you most deeply need,
and may you find a way to give your very best
toward the ongoing evolution of our human family.

That is what this website aspires to be: a place for anyone so inclined to give their best through the creative arts. To get the ball rolling for the new year, here are some new scribblings of my own. If you would like to share yours, get in touch!



When time flows backward      

 

Today after plenty of rain

when river and sky are liquid light

and time is flowing backward

I sit and watch the seabirds float

on the swiftly fluid blue and gold

 

We ride along so comfortably,

all facing backward to gaze behind

as full of trust we homeward glide

into the kind and pure unknown

happily lost outside of time

 

TLR

Floating into 2022
Trudi Lee Richards

Trudi Lee Richards

Trudi Lee Richards, a poetic and musical member of the Universal Human Nation, is the author of On Wings of Intent, a biography of Silo; Soft Brushes with Death, a Jorge Espinet Primer; Confessions of Olivia, a fictional autobiography; and Fish Scribbles. She has also co-authored two books: Experiences on the Threshold and Ambrosia - Poetic Recipes/Recetas poeticas. Exactly two of her poems have been published by anyone other than her less-than-modest self: “The Great 21st Century Poemic" appeared in the April 2021 edition of Global Poemic (globalpoemic.wordpress.com); and "Fairies of the Forest" appeared in the Palo Alto Times "Youth Said It" column in 1957. In the '90s she also wrote for, edited and published an independent San Francisco newspaper, Human Future; and in the '70s she co-founded the San Francisco arts publication La Mamelle, which morphed into Art Com before it died, and whose remnants are now housed in the Stanford Archives. A graduate of Stanford University, she helped raise several humans from infancy, and is now enjoying their friendship. Currently she tends to wander between Oregon and California, enjoying the company of her beloved community of friends and family. She can more or less reliably be found at the west coast Park of Study and Reflection, outside Red Bluff in Northern California, on the third Saturday of every month.