They tried to silence,
as so many have tried before,
that voice crying in
the moral wilderness. They
might take a moment
and ask how well that’s worked in
history’s long arc. There
have always been those who heard
the silenced voices
speak and kept alive the call
to bend history’s arc toward justice.
JDG
It won’t make the news,
but today a stranger saw
me struggle to lift
a case of bottled water
and put it in my
grocery cart. “Let me help you,”
she said, and added
with a smile, “I’d want someone
to help my granny too.”
JDG
It takes courage to
grab ahold of the rope of
hope and not let go,
especially when we’re told it’s
ill-advised by those
more cynical and more “wise”.
When hope joins hands with
effort, steadfast and informed,
cultural shifts can be born.
JDG
Caught in an argument, I ask myself,
” Do I want to
connect or
do I
want
to
win?” This
is enough
to give me pause…
Can I listen to both myself and him?
JDG
February finally
gave up trying
to be some other month
and settled in,
at least for today,
to simply be itself.
JDG
Sometimes “Follow the
Leader” will take a nation
right over the cliff.
JDG
Early evening sky
glows red – a fitting close to
a fiery day.
JDG
From the ground of being
joy springs forth.
May we not bury it
beneath our many worries
and concerns. Rather,
may that joy sustain us
in the midst of our struggles
within and without.
JDG
Right here, right now, as I sit down to write,
my cat plants her
purring self
on my
lap
and
begins
to nudge my
writing hand as
if to say, “You can write another day.
I’m old and I
need you right
here, right
now.”
She
is soon
joined by a
lonely dog, and
right here, right now, I set my pen aside.
JDG
What – a slight powder
of snow and the schools didn’t
