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Friday, June 5, 2026

Any Other Day

Any other day 

could have been filled 


with sunshine or raindrops 

but today is 


not like any other day 

even though filled with 


the decisions of any other day. 

Which mug to fill with tea, 


which task to do, 

which part of life to live, 


which time to be here or there, 

which friends and family to enjoy. 


Any other day 

could have been filled 


with sunshine or raindrops 

but not the same ones that filled this day.


“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

~ Muhammad Ali

(1942 ~ 2016)

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Momentum in Flight

Dedication to anything is 


as a bird in flight 


muscles and mind 


working in harmony 


to get to the nest, 


to forage for wants and needs


flying through

  

   rain clouds, 

     

      open air, 


         against hostile winds.


At the end of the day 


to rest and sleep 


readying for 


the next day’s flight.


Our self-acknowledgement has to be bigger than our fear.”

~ Rod Stryker, author

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

I Would Have

Otherwise, I would have 

let my imagination roll 

out a carpet of poetry, 

yet the day just lived 

didn’t lend itself to such 

flights of fancy. 


Otherwise, I would have 

looked at the raindrops 

on green leaves and seen 

the mysteries in each 

glistening drop of water.


Otherwise, I would have 

raised my navy umbrella 

to the misty rain that 

gently reminded me 

of Vancouver Island. 


Otherwise, I would have 

seen the blackened crust on 

my bread as a failure but 

the tender inside was delicious, 

butter and honey spread thick.


Otherwise, a day will come 

when all of these things may 

mean nothing to me. For today, 

they are the sweet stitches 

that hold memories of today. 


“I got out of bed on two strong legs. 

It might have been otherwise.”

~ Jane Kenyon, Otherwise


*Author’s note: my poetry tonight inspired by 

the poem Otherwise by Jane Kenyon