Within My Reach

Title: Into the Woods

Magazine: Vogue US September 2009

Model: Natalia Vodianova

Photographers: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot

There was a time

when Wild Woman was young,

when Fun was riding fast

with a bad boy,

but that fun didn't last.

Then came a deeper love

with nature and the wild,

that I shared with every

animal and child.

Today my fun

is hanging chocolates on friends' doors,

or walking other peoples' dogs

along the beach.

I gather daily blessings,

each to each -

everything for fun and happiness

is right within

my reach.

for Susan's prompt at Midweek Motif: Fun.

Today, I am struggling with fatigue and my head feels like a block of wood. My idea of fun is Total Immersion in a jelly doughnut. LOL. So many memories of fun: the band Mullingar playing its first wild notes, and all of the beautiful people joyously circling and dancing in a meadow as the sun was setting; bike riding far into the country; long wild rambles with Pup; and always, always, my preferred activity: reading books.

Life is quieter these days. My fun is watching happy dogs and wide-eyed babies at the beach. But, like Rumi, I feel like the luckiest person on the planet.