by Deb Farris | Jun 3, 2018 | Devotions
I’m drawn to the fields where the soft wheat shimmers beneath the sun, where sweat drips down the back of my neck as I walk for hours thinking about everything and nothing in particular. I’m drawn to the fields where I lay my head down and drift up to the clouds,...
by Deb Farris | May 20, 2018 | Dance, Greater Good, Musings
I am a dancer and I work at a nonprofit called Danceworks. I usually write about my work on our Danceworks blog instead of here. This is my personal blog but since this post ventures a little into the personal, I thought it might be better served here. Our mission at...
by Deb Farris | May 13, 2018 | Family, Musings, Poetry
Like the new moon your face shines unseen. Your past now hidden in clouds of recollections. But as the sun streams through your smile in my dreams, you shatter the stars and light hearts for all eternity. Photos of my late parents by Janet Lew Carr at Danceworks...
by Deb Farris | May 4, 2018 | Musings
There is a space within every beating heart that reaches beyond what the eye can see on earth, below the earth and above the earth, beyond the stars and the clouds we carry within. A love higher and wider, deeper and greater than our ability to understand reaches down...
by Deb Farris | Apr 29, 2018 | Musings
She sits with a line to the water and watches a yellow bobbing ball against its surface. There is no bite. But she sits. She waits. Waiting is discipline, an act of faith. Alone, she is free of others’ calculations and accusations. Bobbing ball drops out of...
