Perspective ~ 5

This will be short ~

My dilemma:

Returning a gift when transportation was awkward.

My success:

I did it successfully, 

other errands done in about 3 hours, 

then home to hot soup and a crisp salad.

Ukraine’s dilemma:

Defending their country and freedoms while keeping their citizens safe.

Ukraine’s success:

Despite constant shelling they continue their fight. Few citizens are safe, many have died or been injured, almost all have lost their homes ~ 28 days and counting.

“loving people live in a loving world. 

hostile people live in a hostile world. same world.”

~ Wayne W. Dyer

On An Afternoon Walk - Signs of Spring?

I have seen rabbits running and chasing,

heard honking geese flying high over

ever melting piles of sand laden snow.

March flowers, left in Victoria, are

replaced by barely budding trees 

and softening ice on Regina’s lake.

A tiny flick and a spot of bright red 

from above, caught my eye.

A fluffy bit of Regina spring ~ 

a new red squirrel, alert and bright of eye!

“Spring was moving in the air and in the earth below and around him.”

~ Kenneth Grahame

(British author of The Wind in the Willows)

Spring Risks

Puddles are muddy

Temptingly so!

One side is shallow

The other not so….

Shallow side safe

Deeper side fun!

Tiny splashes, dry toes?

A big splash, real fun!

“Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, 

in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.”

~ Valerie Worth, American poet

(October, 1933 - July 31, 1994)