320: awaken to the dawn

letting nothing else speak to me in the early morning hours than the gentle eyes of the sweet orange dog the ceaseless chime of crickets through the open window the tap of the body creaking the floorboards overhead and the lovely hum of my heart happy to be pumping...

319: so the flow of events

school finished right on the heels white dress babies house another baby house across the world or so it seemed alone yet that’s what we sought defining our way too quickly preoccupied with definitives right wrong true false us them it soon cost the price of...

318: that I was of some value

I need to know that I mattered that I’ve done the work of my life separated the wheat from the chaff built the memories and found the words to hold them success does not arrive on horseback sweeping me up on its back it takes others to grow and push us to the...

317: it’s true

This is the place of your work now to take your life listen to it turn it into the future listen with the ears of attention to the melody of wonder and awe put that song into your hand hold the brush and paint that into life this is your work...

316: there to become a human being

fussy as if a two year old had moved in and it was way past naptime the state of my brain quickly to sleep night before easiest way to shut it down seven hours in some fog half-waking but still here I again become more human to the sunrise and bird...