October 2010
38 posts
September 2010
40 posts
i miss my best friend/other half/platonic soulmate more than i can explain.
the Sandi-shaped hole in my life feels so wrong.
The Orange
At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park This is peace and contentment. It’s new. The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all my jobs on my list And enjoyed them...
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me...
“I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.”
-Fritz Perls
