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NOTE: Blogger is having trouble, and I wanted to come back and enable comments at this post, but editing posts is not working for the moment. So I am posting this entire post again. I'll delete the other one (with comments disabled, which I later thought better of) when Blogger fixes this problem.
Harika! On December 9, 2009, at last I am able to edit posts. Duplicate deleted.
All the days gather forward
to this.
We survived another year.
We were held close.
We lost, we gained.
What winds and storms battered
and tattered and made us turn our heads,
- and oh - see something new?
There was good reading - those essays and short stories!
Movies moved and disturbed us.
There were visits and visitations.
Good-byes,
setbacks, illness and pain.
Jobs lost.
There were shocking funerals!
There was emptiness, disappointment and longing.
Frustration, loneliness, confusion and fear.
And there were weddings and engagements!
Births and hatchings and
new friends!
Surprising raises and sales of houses.
As things got worse all around,
writers turned words to the heart,
artists applied paint and clay outward to a cause of love,
musicians supported the hungry and desperate,
playing tim-tim-tim-tee-tim.
Friends and strangers alike
paid more attention and helped more.
People paused longer in the hall at the office to talk.
Strangers passed
cash forward in the checkout line at the store.
I feel all this
in my
heart
mind
and soul
in health, compassion,
deeper sadness and broader joy.
All the days gather forward
to this
Gratitude.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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