Fall

We know time isn't linear, I say it doubles back on itself in the autumn. This time of year our past and future are closer to us than any other season, I'm sure of it. It doesn't help to ignore this fact.

"When I look at ugliness, I see beauty. When I am far from home, I see old
friends. When there is noise, I hear a robin's song instead. When I am
in a crowd, it is the mountain's peace I feel. In the winter of my
sorrow, I remember the summer of my joy.
In the nighttime of my loneliness, I breathe the day of my thanksgiving. But when the sadness spreads its blanket and that is what I see, I take my eyes to some high place until I find a reflection of what lies deep inside of me."-- Navajo saying

Feed Thy Soul

If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Moslih Eddin Saadi

4.5

4.5 to watch you blossom

Exploding in vivid color like a bird of paradise bloom.

4.5 from way too tiny to oh, so tall

4.5 to see you change from needing to giving

Taking all I have and more but giving me . . . giving more.

4.5 of big failures and big successes

4.5 of doing days together

Thinking of all that number holds, 4.5, delightful child.

Berlin

Dry leaves on cobbled stones

Swishing, loudly. Make these moments louder.

Solid German moments

Flitting music that wakes you

Rather than putting you to sleep.

Tausend Dank, Berlin. A thousand thanks.