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A Thought for Today
SING OUT! Don't die with all your songs
still inside of you.
TO BEGIN WITH
Easterners might term our California weather over the holiday weekend
“crisp” but to these bones it was downright cold. What one might expect
of winter –– in Alaska.
TWO MEDITATIONS ON WINTER
IN WINTER
In winter we return home again to whatever. Cold comfort. Warmth of
friends. Strangeness. Death. We hibernate like bears. Seek private
places to stay private in. Ward off colds. Christmas for the children.
Loneliness for others.
There is a purity to winter. A calmness. The young are left alone
because their elders dwell on loss and limits. This time excuses for
reassessing involve the new year. Maybe the purity of winter has more to
do with snow than stuff of stronger substance.
-Adapted from “A Book of Days", 1981
WINTER AGAIN
I never thought that I had wasted love even when I gave it freely to
those I might not, could not, would not go on loving. I learned by
loving and I was taught by experts. Groomed by the selfish and the
selfless too. Love seldom tied me up in knots. The closer I’ve been
held, the more I’ve learned freedom. I am only bound when I’m alone,
chained when no one’s here to love me back.
-Adapted from “A Book of Days", 1981
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