Priorities

Temptation to change the world 

is merely a wisp of a dream,

too great a task, 

and too messy. 

I walked to day, 

just to the grocery store 

for my prescription refill 

and bananas. 

I added a Bosc pear because 

they taste good. Curious, 

I took my blood pressure - 

the machine showed ‘optimal’.   

Then I spoke to a cheerful pharmacy tech 

about the state of the weather outside. 

Paying my bill, I packed my groceries

and my medication into my bag, 

zipped up my jacket and headed home. 

I looked up to check the clouds ~ 

rain this afternoon or possibly this evening? ~ 

Three blocks to walk, I skirted all the puddles,

rain stayed in the clouds. Home safe and dry. 

Temptation to change the world 

is merely a wisp of a dream,

too great a task, 

and too messy.

“Action expresses priorities.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Breathe

Patience is a lovely practice. 

It lets me breathe. 

See and hear life around me. 

Quiets all the busy thinking 

of the chattering should’s 

and shouldn’t have’s 

rolling through

my mind while I wait for 

anything, something, everything.

It let’s me breathe in life around me;

hear all the life around me.

Patience is a lovely practice.

“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen 

in a different order than the one you have in your mind.”

~ David G. Allen, author

Why Wait?

Excitement rolls with life’s punches, 

waiting for a walk in the park, 

  the latest movie,            

    the bloom of fireworks 

      over the prairie. 

Why wait? 

  Because life should be a surprise 

    spreading across your face 

      warming your heart. 

Excitement rolls with life’s punches, 

  To ease pains of yesterday and today

    To strengthen the soul for tomorrow

      To remember the joys of every day.

“For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.”

~ William Shakespeare