release

The power of forgiveness is that it releases your friend from guilt as it releases you from anger ... a sign of respect for your friend and a choice to care for your own well-being.
--Marietta McCarty

daydream

pond

alder

Planting the Alder

For the bark, dulled argent, roundly wrapped

And pigeon-collared.

For the splitter-splatter, guttering

Rain-flirt leaves.

For the sub and clot of the first green cones,

Smelted ermerald, chrlorophyll.

For the scut and scat of the cones in winter,

So rattle-skinned, so fossil-brittle.

For the alder-wood, flame-red when torn

Branch from branch

But mostly for the swinging locks

of yellow catkins,

Plant it, plant it,

Streel-head in the rain.

--Seamus Heaney

draft

I understand that I am repeatedly drawn to the same spaces.  Sweeping fields with soaring clouds that drift between me and the ever-variable blue. Spaces full of suncapture that leave me wondering about the difference between silver and gold. Spaces that hold nothing, but welcome everything.  Temporary hosts to clouds, wind, birds -- open to what or whomever will find comfort within.  I breathe deeply pulling in deep drafts of dust and light.  

the wisdom's in the trees