Adaptation ~ 1

There’s a pizza in the oven.

not made by my own hand

but purchased with my groceries,

a treat to have on hand.

And when I looked upon it,

although it seemed delish,

pepperoni, mushrooms, mozzarella

were definitely amiss.

I fixed the lack that I saw,

my taste buds were my guide,

and soon I’ll have my pizza

sliced up and tucked inside.

We each have come upon this earth

pre-made and set to grow.

We learn our tastes and what to choose

to set our lives aglow.

This is not always easy

and always not to pass,

but if you can, and if you will

small steps will bring pizazz.

“Whatever there be of progress in life comes

not through adaptation but through daring.”

~  Henry Miller

Should there be Stillness

Stillness within

Calm uncertainty

Shouldn’t there be more?

Vibrant busy energy

Explosions of words

Shouldn’t there be work done?

Shouldn’t I want to do more?

But stillness is still within

Certain calmness

There should only just be.

“We all have within us a center of stillness  surrounded by silence.”

~ Dag Hammarskjold

Space in Time

Is this adventure into space really the final frontier or the opening of a door to the next room of this universe?

My memory fails me to date and time, but I recall Grandpa Garratt, one eye blind, in his living room, watching black and white TV through his one ancient eye still clouded with cataracts and thick lensed glasses as a rocket lifted into space.

I thought of him today while I listened to, and saw, the conversation between Commander Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut, aboard the space station ISS and William Shatner aka James T. Kirk, Captain of the fictional Starship Enterprise as they spoke over satellite channels this morning. The camera was on Cmdr. Hadfield floating in space, words strong and down to earth.

I listened and watched on this very laptop.

I thought of Grandpa sometime in the space of the 1960’s.

Always interested, these marvellous advances would have fascinated him.

“In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System 

and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, 

much more than the end, of history.”

~ Carl Sagan