A Poem For today - Another Summer Begins

[KEN DICKINSON]

Another Summer Begins

Summer begins again.

How many do I still have?

Not a worthy question,

I imagine.

Hope is one thing,

gratitude another

and sufficient

unto itself.

The white blossoms of the shad

have opened

because it is their time

to open,

the mockingbird

is raving

in the thornbush.

How did it come to be

that I am no longer young

and the world

that keeps time

in its own way

has just been born?

I don't have the answers 

and anyway I have become suspicious

of such questions,

and as for hope,

that tender advisement, 

even that

I'm going to leave behind.

I'm just going to put on

my jacket, my boots,

I'm just going to go out

to sleep

all this night

in some unnamed, flowered corner

of the pasture.

Mary Oliver

Sent from my iPhone

[John Jai Conley]

“We go round and round and round in the circle game”

-Joni Mitchell

https://youtu.be/V9VoLCO-d6U?si=HWyzhx3Zh15mP_AR

Thanks Ken

Love you Mary

Jai

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

John O’Donohue

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