Just another day
Slogging along. Rather be
Jogging into bed
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Three joyous women
A decade of hell on earth
Renewed lives today

#usatodayhaiku
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None expected mob
Benghazi still befuddles
Diplomats’ regret

#usatodayhaiku
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Climate change Spring time
Early fires and late snow storms
Portend things to come

#usatodayhaiku
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Margaritaville
Five syllable reminder
Tequila goodness
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Warm sunshine light breeze
Honeysuckle scent wafting
Worries dissipate
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Haiku arises
Memory then awareness
Out of distant past

Out of distant past
Memory then awareness
Haiku arises
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Sunlight on a door
Door does not know it is warm
Nor an opening
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Rocking bird feeder
The bird is already gone
One less hungry one
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May grace and mercy
Find us all days of our lives
Heaven here on earth

Will anything find us?
Ever ease the weary soul?
Grace and mercy may
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Roll away the dew
Wildflower seeds will renew
Sacred hillside life
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“The skills you need

to know what you do

can be different than

the skills you need to do what you know.”

Mark Katz                                                                http://conta.cc/Zx7tnI

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Rays of sun shine down
Orange blends yellow blends white
Warming the weary bones
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge

is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

Albert Einstein

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This is a very good thing.
Health and someone to share it with
Lack of health and someone to share it with
Life is too short for a love that lasts so long
Love, and my dear loved one, show the eternal truths
This is a very good thing.
Health or no health
Happiness or no happiness
Life and no life
These are each our being in a moment of eternal truth
This too is a very good thing
Health is, until it is taken for granted,
But never again
The foibles of our lives are learned in these moments of no health
Love, and my dear loved one, show the eternal truths
This is a very good thing.
The blessing is not only the health, it is the love and connections with the loved ones
Life is too short for a love that lasts so long
This is a good thing in its way, in its connection, on this day.

This moment is a place we’ve never been before.

[inspired by "The Power of Kindness" by Piero Ferrucci, 2006, Penguin Group ]

Enter resonance
All relationships are now
Empathic presence

or

Present empathy
Intertwined us together
As a sacred gift
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Empathy requires
Unconditional regard
For the one person
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A bird on a rock
Green ice plant purple flowers
Bay waters flowing
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You would think I would
have run out of tears by now
Fog rolls out to sea
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A black bird flying
landing among pink flowers
Then bathing nearby
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It’s Monday again
Like an ant walking in line
I pick up my load
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She wakes in the night
Ignore the stupid machine!
And go back to sleep
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Angel turns her back
How long will it take to move
Past sorry to something?
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I am an optimist and I lived my life in joy
Too many things have happened to me and the ones I love
For me to worry about any one thing
with a greater perspective or trauma
than its place in the wholeness of my life
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Orion running
Perpetually as light
In the morning sky
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Orion arise
Beloved in the night skies
Running running on
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Standing on a different
Part of the planet
Looking at a different
Part of the sky.
Moving through each day
Step by step and breathe by breathe
Learning what there is to learn
By listening and not judging
Passing up the opportunity to be right
Taking the opportunities in being present.
Standing alone with others
Having an openness that could have been lost
Watching the passing seasons
As the stars rearrange themselves
Orion passes from view
as strength sometimes hides
The constellation reappears
But never changed
Or did it grow stronger?
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In the winter sky
Beyond frigid wisps of clouds
Orion passes
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Orion fell out
Of the sky and scorpion
Usurped selfishly
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Orion runner
Flies through life across the sky
Like it all matters
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Orion’s right knee
Gave out in the late winter
Just as snow melted
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Orion places me on the planet
But the planet moves continuously
But I can’t change
Change is so hard for each person
We are what we were
We became what we were meant to be
We were meant to be what we tried to be
And what our stumbled path led us into
Change, space, place, and self
Being now, living now, listening now
How?
I can’t express myself except sideways
Through poetry which no one reads or cares about
Listening being wondering
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Orion returns
In September ready to
Wrest kindness from wrath
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At noon the sun will
Pass before Orion’s belt
On its day’s journey
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Orion rising
Sideval situation
Betelgeuse and Bellatrix
Above Rigel Alnilam Alnitak and Mintaka
Where is Saiph?
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Blazing shooting star
Under Orion’s right foot
Lights the hunter’s way
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Always Orion
Running across the night sky
Orion always
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Holding in my hands
Like a sparrows speckled egg
Fragile full of life

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Hiding in my heart
Memory or foreboding
Please stay there for now
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Happenstance in dance
Brings vitality and joy
Healing in movement
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Like butterfly wings
Crumpled on the narrow path
Bright spirit fades out
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Always Orion
Running across the night sky
Orion always
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Thoughts to good to be
Fantasy musings waiting
For healing in me
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Far as I can see
I know is mine secretly
I don’t own the sky
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It was a conceit of mine
To think that of all the poor seekers for help
There are none
who have it worse than me

There is a depth to a well
Which grows deeper and richer
As woe is poured in
And compassion is pulled out

The woman of Samaria stood at the well
And drew water for Jesus
He recognized the kindness being given
By one who had suffered in order to stand by that well.

John 24 : God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
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Living right now
Usually mundane
But sometimes sublime
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Living right now
Moment to moment
Without anxiety
And foregoing anticipation
Has great value in its simplicity
Living right now
In the moments of pain and heartache
Is exquisite in a way
The heart can break
Then move to another moment
Living right now
When life is good
And simple joys appear
Makes such moments
Worth all that life can give
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A different plane
Of relating has emerged
Deep sorrow deep joy
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Living like a leaf
Letting the wind have its way
Warmed by sun each day
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There was a young dog from Atlanta
Who lost his belief in Santa
He wandered all over the world
Often just to find squirrels
One day in the Spring, south of Funny
He finally chased the Easter Bunny
To his great surprise and delight
He caught him in the midst of his flight
Just as he thought of the chocolate so sweet
Who do you think he should meet?
You guessed it, that jolly old man,
Kicked him right in the can.
With his chuckle and jolly belly laugh
The old man pointed out his gaffe
If you eat that sweet bunny today
No gifts will you get for your play
The young dog thought of his sticks and Frisbee and ball
Santa said he’d lose it all
He didn’t want that – it would be such a drag
And then his tail wouldn’t wag
So he let the chocolate bunny go on his way
To pass out eggs another day
The dog wandered home to gnaw on his bone
He would fetch and play when he wasn’t alone
And the jolly old fella, what did he do?
In his regular way, reindeer and all, off to Kaui he flew.

(Written 08/29/2000 upon departing from Children’s Services to work for Family Law.)

One child. One Voice. One Adult
This Time together
The time we spend in each other’s lives is all the time we have.
What we bring is not what was. Nor is it what will be.
What we bring is what we have here and now.

We preserve in our minds and our souls what is life giving,
or what drains our spirit.
Our spirit however, controls how we retain, what we retain.
Can adults give this piece of spirit to a child?
If we did not believe we could, we would not be in this work together.

Children and their parents and families are powerful and dynamic.
Those who would assume they can enter in, as a positive force,
should be both aware and brave, and a little foolish.
How else could they proceed like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
into all these windmills
inhabited by little people?

There are lessons too many to explore in all this we do together.
There are lessons we wish we could impart with ink and paper and formal formats.
There are still more lessons lost in our hearts.
Oh, how we wish our fervent words
would magically be understood by parents, and administrators.
Like the Don and his friend on the donkey, we trudge on.
Some of us even change horses.
Yet we find the same windmills!

Occasionally the winds of change blow through our view of the world.
It takes our worldly experience, and indomitable hope,
to recognize opportunities within the winds of change.
Don Quixote jousted with the winds of change.
He saw a windmill, but attacked a dragon.

Each of us sees all kinds of dragons. We joust at them.
We cry when we fall off our horse.
We rise up again to find more children to rescue from the jaws of the dragon.
Your Sancho Panza is sitting next to you.
Your Sancho Panza is standing before you.
I’ll be around to share in your jousts.
Riding a different horse.
Together we do change the world, one child at a time.
If you don’t believe that, ask your Sancho, who’s sitting next to you.