out on a walk
not yet eight o’ clock
streetlight on
a warning beacon
season shines and quietly moves
nearing its end.
—
“poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
-lawrence ferlinghetti
Sep16
Tag Archives: change
Sep30
’tis the season.
turned in my ballot
watched the first debate
went to sleep hopeful
’tis the season of change
i feel it in the air.
—
“you are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.”
– suzy kassem, the writings of suzy kassem
Aug30
the sunday.
august is the sunday of summer.
-author unknown
Jul26
100.
until the election
think, read, listen, ask, talk, learn, know
make your choice
vote.
—
“everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made.
if you want a different result, make a different choice.”
-jonathan kiavi
Apr20
falling.
forsythia bright in my quarantine kitchen
blossoms have begun to fall
everything is temporary.
—
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” – pema chodron
Apr14
roll.
sign on a closed store window, found while walking in a very quiet downtown
—
“life is such a rolling coaster, either you roll with it willingly,
or roll with it unwillingly, but you must roll either way.”
-blaze olamiday
Mar13
constant.
margot harper nichols
Dec21
change of seasons.
change is afoot
and
winter solstice has arrived.
—
“change in all things is sweet.”
-aristotle
—
image credit:
‘Origin of the Spark’ – new painting by Stephanie Law,
as featured in her ‘Conjure’ exhibition
Sep4
the tipping point.
saw this in the early morning when walking downtown
I wonder about the story behind how it got there
was it a server at his/her limit
finally reaching the tipping point
throwing down the apron
tying them down
abandoning ship
hoping for
something better/different/new out there?
—
‘a single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.’
-andy stanley
Jul10
returning.
with
one sister visiting
one sister gone too soon
only brother on his way
grandchildren in tow
we visited the place
where we had grown up.
it looked much the same
yet felt somehow not.
much like us.
—
“there is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
-nelson mandela
