After You Stop
by Melinda Haas After You Stop When you make the choice to stop trying, another part of you dies. When you make the choice to stop trying, something deep within you sighs relief. When your womb is...
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Silence
I haven’t had a lot to say, hence the overall silence this past year on Hey Lou. This blog started more than a decade ago as something I loved — I loved sharing the new insight I had on the world. I...
View ArticleMy Maple Tree
My womb is an empty harvestPromising plenty and starving meBoth at once I saw it as lifeBlood and energy and painUntil I saw it as a wastelandLifelessBut there was still bloodAnd still painAlways pain...
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Seven Year Satisfaction (No Itchin!)
Here’s the deal: seven is a great number. It’s lucky, it’s nice and odd (I love an odd number!), it’s biblical for crying out loud. It’s also a great way to mark time. We’ve all heard of the Seven...
View ArticleWhat Are You Waiting For? (The Random Man Asks Me)
I’m very surprised to say that TWICE in my life, a man who appears to be in his early sixties has asked me a random question that has radically changed my life. I don’t know who either of these men...
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Garden After Death
My garden grew But only because my maple tree died The tree cracked, split into three pieces So I wouldn’t have to She embodied my pain, the brokenness inside The shrinking and the growing That...
View ArticleSmall Town Miracle – Bodhi Studios
Bodhi Studios : Just What Prescott Needed *Grand opening on January 28th* If you’ve driven up Campbell anytime in the past few months, you may be wondering what’s being built just on the other side...
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The Writer (Hey, It’s Me)
I come back to the old pages over and again. I start to read, and then feel so strange inside, and I wonder who it is that actually wrote the words. Surely it wasn’t me, because I don’t even know what...
View ArticleHow I Manage to Cope (A Poem)
How I Manage to Cope I don’t expect the worst I expect goodness & for others to tell the truth When they don’t I haven’t now experienced it twice Thank goodness (I am an optimist) I find silver...
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The Announcement (The One I Always Wanted To Make)
“A miracle can’t become a miracle unless it is first an impossibility.” I collect grocery lists I find – and this Miracle Note was written on the back of one. I’ve had it up for at least three years....
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