If We Awakened

If we awakened,

would we see the same world just

with different eyes? 

                                                                                      JDG

                     

More Than I Need

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“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”― Mark Twain

Sometimes I drink more than I need
letting myself drown in memories
that serve no purpose

Sometimes I linger longer than I need
between the staying still
and plunging forward without fear

Sometimes I write more than I need
filling up notebooks with revelations
profound to only me

Sometimes I laugh more than I need
or scream or dance or cry or dream

No,
more than I need
could just be the perfect amount
for this short life

cherriesIt’s cherry season here in Michigan so I want to try a recipe in patience called cherry bounce that I discovered through my good friend at incahootswithmuddyboots. Any recipe that includes bourbon reminds me of the Mark Twain quote above that I read every Christmas season in my mother’s cookbook as the first instruction for…

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To This I Am Drawn

I catch whispers of

sound, glimpses of motion as

we linger together

in this small, in between space,

separate from the past,

not yet part of the future.

Once the door opens

I see the immensity

of what awaits and

it is to this I am drawn –

this ever-changing

uncontrollable vastness

some call life and others, God.

                                                                                   JDG

A Sky Alight

There they stood, those two

cousins, and spoke their regrets

at past harshness toward 

each other – one seventeen,

the other twelve. No

adult was there to prod or

preach. What they spoke came

from their own young hearts as they

waited for the Fourth’s

grand fireworks to begin.

Their words lit up the summer night.

                                                                                                              JDG

And So…

Ancient words from far

away speak to me today:

“The best time to plant

a tree is twenty years ago.

The second best time is now.”

                                                                                 JDG

Self Authoring

When I’m in between chapters

and the plot of my life falters,

I can only do what I’ve always done –

take one step, then another,

watch for what develops,

 pick up the plot, and go on from there.

                                                                                                  JDG

As The Day Ends

The busy ways of

wasps and bees and hummingbirds

create quite a stir

this lazy, sun-soaked evening.

I sigh, pleased my chores are done.      

                                                                                                    JDG

Turning Again To Martin Luther King Jr.

As we struggle with feelings of anger and despair over the deadly abuse of power in Louisiana and Minnesota, and the retaliatory gun violence in Texas may we reaffirm Martin Luther King Jr.’s belief spoken in Oslo in 1964 upon his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize: “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

 May we support those committed to translating this belief into action and may our own behavior be guided by the understanding that “nonviolence is not sterile passivity but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation…[and that we] must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.” 

                                                                                      JDG

     

Summer Blues

Sweltering heat or

gloomy rain and thunderstorms –

Is this all there is?

                                                                                              JDG