"What Life Does..." Inspired by Eleanor Lerman's Poem "Starfish"

"...And you wonder, is this a message, finally, or just another day?" Inspired by a poem called "Starfish"

"...Because you / were born at a good time. Because you were able / to listen when people spoke to you. Because you / stopped when you should have and started again..."

Currently reading...

Denis Hunter's Wildflower Falls

Eleanor Lerman's Poem "Starfish" click here for more

Flâneur: A person of leisure who strolls aimlessly, observing life and society. The word carries a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street. source

"Guardian Angels" by The Judds listen here

"Halcyon Days" very cool origin and explanation here

"I Wish You This" see "z" below for SacredBee art

Jackson Browne's "The Pretender" 

Kahu: Honored attendant, guardian, nurse, keeper, caretaker. Kahu “implies the most intimate and confidential relations between the god and its guardian or keeper.

 “Last night the channel was full of starfish…Life lets you take the dog for a walk down to the

pond, where whole generations of biological processes are boiling beneath the mud... Life lets you have a sandwich, and pie for your late night dessert. (Pie for the dog, as well.) And then life sends you back to bed, to dreamland, while outside, the starfish drift through the channel, with smiles on their starry faces as they head / out to deep water, to the far and boundless sea.” source

Misty chillin with me  Monday Morning 25 Sep 23

Now 5 October 23 so....

October skies

Pretender lyrics: "I've been aware of the time going by / They say, in the end, it's the wink of an eye / When the morning light comes streaming in / You'll get up and do it again, Amen"

Quickening my steps with Misty to burn a few calories (doctor's "orders")

 “Reeds speak to you of the natural world: they whisper, they sing. And herons pass by. Are you old enough to appreciate the moment? Too old? There is movement beneath the water, but it may be nothing. There may be nothing going on. And then life...Suggests that you remember the years you ran around, the years you developed a shocking lifestyle, advocated careless abandon, owned a chilly heart.”

"This is what life does. It lets you walk up to  / the store to buy breakfast and the paper... It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee... Then it sits a fisherman / down beside you at the counter who says...[see "L" above] ...This is life’s way of letting you know that / you are lucky. (It won’t give you smart or brave / so you’ll have to settle for lucky.)"

"Upon reflection, you are genuinely surprised to find how quiet you have become. And then life lets you go home to think about all this. Which you do, for quite a long time/ Later, you wake up beside your old love, the one / who never had any conditions, the one who waited / you out. 

Video of a song that made me smile:

What Then? Or rather, "Then What?" by Clay Walker; watch it here 

eXcited for Logan... less than a month away now:

Zagarenski's Sacred Bee Art