Positioning

Be ready 

Place your feet just so

Flex your knees

Spread your arms wide

Grip the sail board’s wishbone

For when winds of life catch your sail, you’ll plane across deep waters with a speed you would not have on land

Balance in the moment

Catch the spray

Respond to the tug of the wind

Currents of wind and water

from skies above whistle all around

waters below pull at the board beneath your feet.

There’s a ship not far away

Land’s on the other side

Centered in powerful elements 

Balanced in a small space

Positioned for an exhilarating ride

"If you put yourself in a position where you have 

to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you

are forced to expand your consciousness."

~ Les Brown

Slingshots and Stagnation

Office designed like a cul-de-sac 

slingshot channel for chi

unstable flow-through for life force

energy slipping round the end curve with nothing to stop it from slipping out again.

Or more destructive,

with the clutter of 

computers

office furniture

electronic wires

papers

files

life's energy clings, 

stagnates

becomes toxic

With each entry and exit

chi comes along

lively

passionate

lethargic

pessimistic

wrapped 'round us like cloaks

fraying at the edges

leaving bits of us behind.

“The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, 

a banal existence, the quiet desperation that 

comes out of a need for conformity.”

~ Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

Faces of a House

Faces in photographs and portraits on walls and mantles

personalities that inhabit a home when no one is home ~

infants

children

teenagers

adults old and young

family groups

Each family ~ or single man, woman or child ~

changeable faces only as years pass

The personality of a house becomes

imbued with ghosts of many characters.

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If I could peep through a window

what would I see?

Would I see a faceless house before it becomes a home

awaiting new personalities?

Could I imagine new or different characters 

visiting around a new kitchen table,

greeting new guests at the door?

Would portraits suggest closets 

filled with clothing of a different preference,

shoes under beds

different sizes,

shapes and

colours

The face of a house

smiles with new life ~

a new family’s pictures 

on mantles

on walls

bring their family to life

define their past 

in their present space.

Walls remain the same,

upright and supportive;

the arms of the house that 

welcomes a new family.

The shape of the yard and garden also evolves ~

new personalities presented to the neighbourhood.

New life brings 

new style.

Ghosts of families long gone

whisper softly to new residents:

'Welcome home.'

“A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses,

give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.”

~ Loretta Young