Seeking a focus
Answering “what to do next”
Where my brain is now
Spending some time and energy right trying to figure out what I want to be focusing my energy on now.
Tag: life
Childhood’s End
Children now so tall
Just a few years left of school
Childhood’s ending
My Chaotic Mind
My mind
Muddled blur of data
Curious chaos
Diversity: This Morning’s Haiku
Oh diversity;
Respecting our different
Experiences
Finding Home
Release expectation
Follow the sun in daylight
And stars at night
Listen for home’s sensation
When your heart is right
My childhood spent drifting, wandering the world. Eventually, home became this deep expectation, originally unwelcome. The beauty of the world intrigued me so. Now, living near my parents, and where grandparents spent their whole lives, there’s a rich connection. one whose beauty caught me off guard.
The big lives of small children
Awakened by
Voices of early risers
Small children
With big voices
So much
Personality
They occupy
Far more space
Than their bodies
Would belie
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Resisting Fear
Facing down my fears
Resisting despair’s summons
Living by my terms
Fearing Our Fears?
Decisions from fear
Often lead to deep regret
Hmmm…fearing our fears?
Within destruction’s song
within destruction’s songs
lie the call of rebirth
phoenix’s prophetic
return from the flames
oblivion
Perhaps
Perhaps I cannot
Change much in
This broken world
Where cynicism
Valued more
Than compassion.
Perhaps.
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 