— Mary Oliver, from “Consequences”, Dream Work
Notes:
- Quote Source: WeltenWellen.
- Photo: DK, Daybreak. 6:36 am Jan 29, 2021. 13° F, feels like minus 4° F, wind gusts up to 38 mph. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
Tag: mistake
Walking Cross-Town. With Snaps.
Snap a picture a minute, from the instant we open our eyes in the morning until we go to sleep. Calvino‘s words. And they’ve stuck.
Snap. A pigeon, wings fluttering, in her soft landing.
Snap. Powder blue Converse sneakers.
Snap. A leafless tree on 48th rising out of concrete.
Snap. A wind gust from a passing truck lifts a green ribbon, it floats, twists and lands – softly, gently.
Snap. The morning sun, luminous, warming.
Snap. Snap. Snap. Snap. Snap. Snap.
Billions of Snaps of Light, stored, restored in a snap.
The Scoreboard? Light: Billions Served. Non-Light: ~ 30.
And, yet, here they come. Continue reading “Walking Cross-Town. With Snaps.”
But a man’s life comes full circle; you can learn
Laddie was a useful dog on the farm for the next few years, and there were moments when he did good things and we understood each other— once we sorted two ewes that we needed for a show off a hundred others we didn’t need in a field and walked them home. But it was a rare moment, and I always knew he wasn’t as good as he should have been. Sometimes he’d run home when I lost my temper and shouted at him. He lost trust in me. I knew whose fault it was. Mine. I knew that I’d let him down. I look back and think he would have made a good dog if I had known a bit more. But a man’s life comes full circle; you can learn, and do better than your past. I am determined not to make the same mistakes again.
~ James Rebanks, The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape.
Notes:
- Photo by Alex Cearns
- Related Posts: James Rebanks
At two a.m.
At two a.m.
the sky is patent black
and I stand at the center of all my mistakes.
~ Jill Alexander Essbaum
Credits:
- Photo: p-alefoxx.
- Poem: Memory’s Landscape from Jill Alexander Essbaum, from “Miserere Mei,” The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume.
Forget your Perfect
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
That’s how the light gets in
That’s how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen, Anthem
Credits: Thank you Cher @ the Chicago Files for the Cohen lyrics. Thank you Carol for image.