I don’t need to understand the universe

by Margaret Blanchett

quite simply 

the valley is the valley 

and the river is the river 

they help each other to exist 

as a watershed 

together they give us 

          the humans 

rich soil to grow food 

and a place to live 

          nice of them 

and we in turn 

must respect the watershed 

and not overbuild 

and ruin it all 

one hand washes the other 

you need tools to create tools 

we all exist among cycles 

          of living 

-james lee jobe 

LINK: Jim Harrison’s Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.

-Pema Chödron

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Freedy (NOT Freddy) Johnston, Bad Reputation

somewhere in my mind 

lives a rather large sewer rat 

he can feed on anything 

including other rats 

but my inner-rat has a strength 

that I lean on quite often 

a strength that I need 

to keep going 

he is scary 

but I could never harm him 

I can also never let him loose 

contain the inner rat! 

-james lee jobe 

LINK: The Poem You’ve Been Waiting For, by Tarfia Faizullah

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

by Mary Shelly

the old man said

   “I don’t need to understand the universe 

   and I don’t really care if you do either 

   if we can be kind to each other that’s enough 

   are we here to understand or just to be” 

and he walked off without waiting for my answer

-james lee jobe

by Toni Grote

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james