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This Stargazing Youth

As I look upwards
Orion’s belt reminds me
This stargazing youth

So many memories, laying in the grass, eyes skyward, my dreams moving at lightspeed. 

Hints of Spring

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The tree begins anew
Light flows, that old dance
Colors, bees, birds…you know
Life will carry on long beyond me

Evaluating Life

Evaluating
Are actions aligned with goals?
Deliberate change

Doing some personal evaluation right now. Clarifying my goals: what I want to do, what I want my life to mean. Hard, but necessary, especially when I put everything on the table: nothing sacred, all challenged. Ensuring only what is truly enriching remains.

This kind of work is hard. Rewarding, but hard. Hard to look at decisions and paths thinking “is it time to let this go”? But that’s the only way to keep moving forward. 

Poetry as Witness

My heart now broken
Grace within the brutalized
Within all this? Hope!

I finally listened to this story this evening. This gem comes from the CBC. 

The Indian schools were a period of unmitigated evil. It breaks my heart to see the savagey with which we were delighted to