Entertainment for us comes in all forms
~ a walk in the park on a gentle evening
to flickering characters on a screen,
time travel between the covers of a book
the slap and cheer of hockey or soccer
fingers caressing the octaves of a piano,
or the swirl and twirl of a waltz……
Each of them directing us
out of the dailiness of life
and into joy, release and fun.
“Once a person has all the things they need to live,
everything else is entertainment.”
~ Neal Stephenson, author
Reversal of direction
time to pause
space to breathe
time to refocus
space for renewed energy.
“The greatest pleasure in life is
doing what people say you cannot do.”
~ Walter Bagehot,
journalist, economist and essayist
Intending to follow
the direction of my heart,
I set out without a map.
As a child, instruction from parents
~ and any adult ~
composed a singular map
Adults were all knowledgeable?
An adult for many years,
the truth of what I have known
has been pared, shifted and changed
with many maps needed and used
Lives lived by example
Instructions books
Text books
Advice from family and friends,
Books of all kinds
Noticing nature’s ways of growing
I set out with many maps in my heart.
“Maps are way of organizing wonder.”
~ Peter Steinhart, writer and naturalist
