PATIENCE!

Oh dear, i began noticing about 2 months ago that no one was reading my blog posts. It turns out that that was because you were not receiving a notification about them. After umpteen attempts, it seems that the problem is fixed!! How impatient I am with computer woes -- well, let's admit it, I am impateint with LOTS of things! If all goes well, I will resume publishing a new blog every Monday. Until then, let me send you off with a poem about the topic at hand -- PATIENCE. by the wonderful poet Pat Schneider.. -- and thank you for your patience reading this blog. I promise it will be more noteworthy once the Monday posts resume next week! Have a good week-end

The Patience of Ordinary Things

by Pat Schneider

It is a kind of love, is it not?

How the cup holds the tea,

How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,

How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes

Or toes.  How soles of feet know

Where they’re supposed to be,

I’ve been thinking about the patience

Of ordinary things, how clothes

Wait respectfully in closets

And soap dries quietly in the dish,

And towels drink the wet

From the skin of the back

And the lovely repetition of stairs.

And what is more generous than a window?

just testing

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Hello Again!

Well, it appears now that the notification problem with this website has been resolved and you should once again receive a notification after a new blog is posted.  Took a while to get that sorted out!  I’ve missed you in the meantime!  You may have missed a few posts, so at your leisure look back and see what’s been happening.

Here we are on the cusp of spring – more in some locations than others!  But, all of us will soon be seeing wildflowers and breaths of fresh air. The beginning of lent is coming next week.  Here’s a small poem I wrote in the past about spring cleaning of the mind.  May you find fresh air and a continually renewing vista as the world continues to turn us toward the light as we wave good by to February!

SPRING CLEANING

I want to have

a spring cleaning

of my mind.

Get ready

for an open house.

Dust off old ideas.

And I want

to get rid of

the heavy scale

in the very heart

of my heart…

The one that weighs

every small thing

to see if it is

worthy.

I want to be large

about small things,

to own a telescope

instead of a microscope.

I want to put out

the welcome mat,

open the door,

to let in

the me

I want

to be.

~Penny Hackett-Evans