I Wish We Might Do

"I called you because I could not stand alone
looking north to that skyline
tree globed with its yellow apples
balancing like a fountain of planets
in the bright light and the blue air.

And because on the way there
I looked at a smooth cirque
The brook had worn in a stone;
and nothing as soft as water
could, by taking care,
have so pestled and polished
that granite mortar; only
by a thousand years of indifference
of aiming elsewhere.

I wish we might do, or no,
look back and find we had done-
some unadvertized thing,
overwhelming and unself-aware
as water streamling a stone,
or a trees kindling in an
empty meadow its
casual Hesperides."

Poem by P.K. Default

Intuition

photo via internet

"Intuition is really a sudden immersion
of the soul into the universal current of life,
where the histories of all people are connected,
and we are able to know everything,
because it's all written there."The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho

TGIF

Have a wonderful weekend!

The Art of Listening

"So if we love someone,

we should train in being able to listen.

By listening with calm and understanding,

we can ease the suffering of another person."

-Thich Nhat Hanh

My Favorite Poem

The Road Not Taken

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one Traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

-Robert Frost

Happiness for a Lifetime

If you want happiness for a day--go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month--get married.
If you want happiness for a year--inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime--help someone else.

Fall is here

I Love Fall!!
Fall is exciting

It's apples and cider...

It's an airborne spider

It's pumpkins in bins,

It's burrs on dogs chins,

It's wind blowing leaves,

it's chilly red knees,

it's nuts on the ground.

It's a crisp dry sound.

It's green leaves turning.

And the smell of them burning.

It's clouds in the sky,


It's Fall!