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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Blossoms


Today I could do so many things:
wash the car, clean my rooms,
work on my memoir, wash the windows,
address an estrangement
I do not understand.

But Doing requires energy and, these days,
Being takes what little life force I have.
So instead I will sit in the sun, and rock.
I will commune with bees and hummingbirds,
breathe in the scent of cherry blossoms
and newly cut grass.
I will watch my small swiss chard
and kale plants turn their leaves up
to the warmth and straighten their small stems.

Today, it will be enough to be alive,
on a springtime morning,
on the edge of the sea,
watching the rest of the world
stroll by. 

Inspired by This Morning I Could Do a Thousand Things by Robert Hedin. This afternoon, while watching the news, and hearing more horrors, I look up to see two eagles, circling in the sky out my big window, and I feel blessed.

1 comment:

  1. Yes, sometimes the best thing to do is just let the world go by. What you have to do will still wait for you. LOL. There is always tomorrow.

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