Sun drenched branches

dance in rhythm 

with the passing breeze,

softening edges,

lifting spirits,

bringing ease.

                                                      JDG

What happened a year, 

a day,  a moment ago 

is not what’s happening now.

 From each moment why not

take what serves us best

and gently leave behind the rest?

                                                                             JDG

The slow shedding age can bring

of fixed ideas, activities, and things

leaves space to watch life unfold

without a need to grasp or hold.

 In letting go we are filled

and from this place, vast and still, 

we make our final offerings.

                                                                                    JDG

Yesterday’s puddles

sparkle in today’s shining

light – nature’s reassuring song.

                                                                  JDG

When the path gets rough,

the kindness of friends

gives us the strength

to keep on walking.

                                                   JDG

Though her car is totaled

and several bones are broken,

her sense of humor is intact.

I knew she was on the way to recovery

when she announced “I’ll never

again say I’d do anything

to not have to vacuum.”

                                                                             JDG

After spending a day and a half

focused on getting things done,

I realized I was on the run

from troubling uncertainty.

It’s so much easier

to run on the solid ground

of daily tasks than to swim

in the uncertain sea

of worrisome possibility.

I don’t yet know how

to move from land and sea

to land and see.

                                                                 JDG