Today was a day

for going slow and breathing

deep the autumn air.

Grateful for this brief respite,

I did my best to beam, not bite.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     JDG

For forty nine days

now, I’ve followed through and yet

I’m still not out of

the wilderness, internal

and external. I trek on.

                                                                                      JDG

What a difference

one day can make. Yesterday

I became aware

of pounds of tension everywhere.

Today I felt an ounce of grace.

                                                                            JDG

Some of us are slow

learners, which makes me grateful

that I’ve been given

seventy plus years to learn

what my granddaughter knew at two.

                                                                                       JDG

Out of the mist, dark

crows emerge, loudly cawing.

They definitely

do not believe in keeping 

their opinions to themselves.

                                                                                      JDG

Standing in Nature’s 

church beneath a vault of trees,

I offer up a

silent prayer of gratitude

in the midst of holy green.

                                                                              JDG

It helps to recall

other beginnings when I

kept going even

though the pull to stop was strong.

Today I’ll hold on to that.

                                                                                JDG

I watch as my words

splinter and fall silently

on the waiting earth.

Perhaps they will find meaning

in earth’s receptive presence.

                                                                           JDG

From one moment to

the next, the world will change in

ways sometimes large and

sometimes small. What is certain

is the constancy of change.

                                                                                   JDG

Yesterday I let

exercise go, but today

I’m back on track. In

a brief span of time, I had

a loss and a victory.

                                                                    JDG