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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Every Day Matters



Every day matters that we dream 
and see reality until patterns emerge 
with gaps, shapes and focus ~ brush strokes hidden in the colours, corners and swirls until we look closely 
to see where the artist has been.

Every day matters are as simple as washing sheets worn and worried with busy, unsettled sleep tossing and turning in awakening lives, tripping through daisies on our way to reality.

Every day matters become real and important
when it is the novels and mysteries that we read, 
the gaudy or dowdy clothes that we wear 
or food that we eat with gusto or just because. 

Every day matters are at least as important 
as grand schemes at the top of the heap of humanity 
that ebbs and flows around us seeking progress
that seems unreachable because of the crowd.

Every day matters are the cogs on our own wheels, 
the gears that we shift to find the right speed 
to take us over rocky or flat terrain, rivers or streams
with or without sustenance, peace and joy.

Every day matters not what we think 
but what we do while our thoughts tell us 
what screw to turn, what ladder to climb, what speed to go
never a thought to what does come first ~ thought or action. 

Every day matters to each of us 
but we may not know what has mattered or 
we may know what matters for us but 
not what matters to the next guy.

“It’s not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It’s the everyday.”
~ Jamie Oliver

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