I Am Learning

I am learning that

• nothing lasts forever,
• if you feed birds, you will feed squirrels and mice as well,
• it's not what you plant, but what grows.
• the wind is brutal,
• everything does not bloom at the same time, nor as long as I might like.
• peas taste better eaten in the garden,
• everything moves, including rocks,
• I never have enough flower pots, or seeds,
• I find spontaneous moments of joy in our garden (if I don't focus too much on what the earwigs have eaten!).

Today is Independence Day in the USA... The earth is at its Aphelion.  The moon is full and prenumbrally eclipsed.  Our grandkids are in town.  And, today is Day 114 of our COVID-19 isolation.

For Cindy

I am amazed
At this river’s current
Powerful volume,
Never ending,
Never running dry.
I might dip my hand in it
And feel the power and pressure
Of the water
Flowing down from the mountains,
Flowing through the continent,
Flowing on to the ocean,
Becoming ocean,
And then returning
As storm clouds,
Rain and snow on the mountains
And then stream and river again,
Carrying bits of the mountains
To the oceans.

I stand here
On the bank
In this flood plain,
Witnessing the power
That carries everything
Down stream,
Amazed and cautious.