Zero, that moment
of empty fullness, of full
emptiness, gathers
lightness and weight, anchors us
to the ever-present now.
JDG
Day 68 – Rain And Shine
Outside it’s raining
but inside I still sit and
shine with my morning workout.
JDG
The Uninvited
Uninvited, at least by me, deer came
and disturbed my
tidy world.
I pause
and
breathe
and, yes
remember,
they did not ask
me to come and disturb their wild world.
JDG
Higher – Day 67
My mood lifted when
I saw I could raise my left foot
higher than before.
Who knows what will become of
me now that I’m kicking up my heels?
JDG
To Know
To know if we’ve held
a feeling, a thought, a memory
long enough
we have to ask a deeper question –
who or what does the holding serve?
JDG
Where There’s A Willingness -Day 66
Where there’s a willingness,
there’s a way
as I found when I took the time
to exercise today.
JDG
To Be Continued
Indeed, Rosemerry, indeed.
In a time of national crisis, what our country really needs is a good poem.
—Herbert Hoover
This is the time when we must say to the stranger,
the other, sit here. Notice how difficult it can be
to even come to the same table, how hard
to look the other in the eye. Something in us screams,
“Right, I am right.” And it is hard to hear the voice
beneath that scream, a whisper of a gospel that says
nothing at all.
This is the time when we must say to ourselves,
I am also the stranger, when we must look
in the mirror and not know who it is we see—
someone capable of being more courageous,
more compassionate, more devoted, more
astonishingly vulnerable and connected
than we ever knew ourselves to be. Who
is that stranger in the mirror, we must ask,
and vow to never…
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Even Now?
What remains if I give myself
to the ever-changing now?
Will I leave behind a scattering
of treasured moments or
can I hold them tenderly
even now?
JDG
Day 65 – All Those Reasons
I thought of a slew
of reasons to delay, but
went ahead and did it anyway.
JDG
United, We Stand
Through high winds and storms
we stand.
Sometimes the turbulence
has been within,
sometimes between,
sometimes without.
Still we stand.
When heart, mind, and soul align
and we join hands with one another,
we don’t just survive –
we thrive.
JDG
