Adventuring We Go

 

Heat turned down on summer,

wind in the trees, clouds in the sky

a peek from the sun warms the day 

and we’re off!

Lunch with a friend at Smitty’s and a trip to The Plant Ranch at 5909 13th Ave filled my afternoon.  With no intention to buy anything….at all……really……and yet a Black-eyed Susan found it’s way into my possession. I did need another pot so had to buy one! Stones in the bottom, potted with new soil and watered, my rather bent but healthy purchase was home. It did need support to stand straight. A search in my house revealed two pseudo cattails with long strong, straight stems! It pleases me to have my favourite bright flowers on my porch. 

“Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart
and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”

~ Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Creation ~ 2

Taking stock of 

the past and the present,

before the future arrives, 

is all a-jumble and babble.

Finding the truth of

yesterday and today,

before the future arrives,

is not for the faint of heart.

Creating value and order

from the chaos of yesteryears

gives the future 

a chance for redemption.

“Teach them that rainbows appear after a storm 

to remind them that light begins and ends with all colours.”

~ Frederic M. Perrin, Rella Two Trees - The Money Chiefs

What Will Be?

Round Dance 
Artist: Kate Hersberger

A moment in time has passed

with two steps forward and

one or two steps back.

If two steps, it gets buried 

under rhetoric and laws.

A moment in time is passing

with halting steps forward,

pauses for backstepped history.

Even silenced voices have been heard 

and the heat of anger explodes.

A moment in time will pass ~

What steps will be taken?

Forward, back or dancing in circles?

When the heat has cooled

what will be?

“Truth is a seed

planted deep.

If you want to get at it

you have to dig.”

~ Katherena Vermette, river woman

Metís poet and Winner of Governor General's Award 2013

for North End Love Songs