Yesterday vanished into memory,
today ~ a birthday delight with family,
tomorrow is an open, uncharted road.
“I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow
and both were a real as today ~
which is like the dreams of ghosts!”
~ Robert E. Howard, author
(1906 ~ 1936)
The big dream is to ride
a wide open highway to success
yet from my perspective of years
those big dream highways are
random connectors to daily life.
The day to day living of each life.
Sleep and eat,
keep body and soul together,
pay the bills and
stroll on a Sunday afternoon.
Back alleys are notoriously filled
with our detritus for the garbage men
with their big, grumbling trucks;
the nomads of the streets with
shopping carts and plastic bags.
And yet back alleys are filled
with quiet, sad history of
old refrigerators and furniture;
the colourful art work of graffiti artists.
Paved or packed dirt with grass
trying to survive
they draw a line between
vegetable and flower gardens
and messy yards for
plastic swimming pools and tree houses.
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic;
it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
~ Colin Powell
There is time ~
there is always time
a glide
so soft and quick
not slow
nor fast
nor even steady,
life exists in the moments
that surround us.
How did you feel
the flow of time yesterday?
“I blinked my eyes
and in an instant,
decades had passed.”
~ John Mark Green,
Last the Wild Wonder: Poems
Yesterday and for the benefit of my kitty, Jet, I have had to say good bye to the sweet potato plant. Growing so nicely, it was almost 10 inches tall, with a total of eight leaves and more tiny ones yet to unfurl. Jet saw it as a source of nutrition. First, one of the big bright green leaves attracted his sharp teeth. I moved it out of his reach - I thought. Then a second leaf showed the ravages of his teeth. In the meantime I researched ‘toxicity of sweet potato plants on felines’. Digestive upset and hallucinatory effects concerned me. There were minor effects - jumping back from his water as though he’d seen something frightening; digestive upset that didn’t stop him from eating or drinking. After a couple more days of trying to keep plant and cat separate, I decided to apologize to my little bit of greenery and let it go.
“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
~ Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
While leaves fade into late summer,
Sunflowers, as brilliant as ever,
welcome bees into nature’s pantry.
“Nature never hurries.
Atom by atom, little by little,
she achieves her work.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yawning
despite the desire to keeping reading,
plot twisting and turning,
characters leaping over gigantic obstacles,
solid
black
fading
in and out
Characters in slow motion
Obstacles softening and translucent
…….what happened?! …..
I just dozed off again!
“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment:
people falling asleep like this.”
~ Jonathan Franzen, novelist
Ambition to live the life
we were given
put on the wayside
when confronted with style,
images and must do’s.
If we do not measure up
then we chance to
forget our own courage
and desire for independence.
Independence of thought,
of action
of belief
in life as we see it.
And so we climb
into that suit of armour
that fits us best and
take the direction of our choice
despite pitfalls that may be in our path.
“We never know how high we are
Till we are called rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
~ Emily Dickinson, Aspiration
