 |
| Paul Cézanne - Landscape 1862-1864 |
sunshine on sunshine
it builds up like snow
the light grows deeper and brighter
as the day goes on
to live in the big valley is to know light
moving across this flat land
i try to keep my westward travels in the morning
and save the east for the evening
always keeping the sun at my back
feet upon the valley
eyes upon the sky
the world is immense and yet it is but a speck
in the vast emptiness of the expanding universe
and i am a smaller speck wandering on that speck
how marvelous to be so tiny and so free
it’s wonderful just to be alive breathing
our bodies are mostly water
they teach us that in school
when we are still quite young
and with water we thrive
and so this long dry sacramento valley
craves water to drink
and indeed is itself part of a huge watershed
moving water from rain and snow
to creek and river
and so on to the ocean
the valley thrives greenest in the wet years
and yellows a bit in the dry ones
have you ever felt dry and brittle
like perhaps you wouldn’t make it
to the next wet year
i often have
especially when missing my late son
mid-winter looking west
i see a front coming in
it will rain in this valley today
__________
when you make the best
of the way stuff turns out.
james lee jobe
 |
| Paul Cézanne - 1883 View of the Bay of Marseille & the Village of Saint-Henri |
Just as the Ganga slants, slopes, and inclines toward the east, so too a practitioner who develops and cultivates the four meditations slants, slopes, and inclines toward nirvana.
Gautama Buddha
Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
John Lewis
link: Anne Frank Huis, a poem by Andrew Motion
please consider making a donation to support this blog with a cup of coffee. the link, just below, is safe. thank you, jlj
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please be polite.