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Love's In Need Of Love Today

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (Official Video)

Gratitude: Mother's Day Goodness

The Raincoat  

When the doctor suggested surgery
and a brace for all my youngest years,
my parents scrambled to take me
to massage therapy, deep tissue work,
osteopathy, and soon my crooked spine
unspooled a bit, I could breathe again,
and move more in a body unclouded
by pain. My mom would tell me to sing
songs to her the whole forty-five minute
drive to Middle Two Rock Road and forty-
five minutes back from physical therapy.
She’d say, even my voice sounded unfettered
by my spine afterward. So I sang and sang,
because I thought she liked it. I never
asked her what she gave up to drive me,
or how her day was before this chore. Today,
at her age, I was driving myself home from yet
another spine appointment, singing along
to some maudlin but solid song on the radio,
and I saw a mom take her raincoat off
and give it to her young daughter when
a storm took over the afternoon. My god,
I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her
raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel
that I never got wet.

Ada Limon 

Gratitude: May, 4, 2023

1. Ledge

No use telling  
         the dead what  
you’ve learned since  

they’ve learnt it too—  

how to go on  
         without you, the mercy  
of morning, or moving,  

         the light that persists 
even if.  

✶  

Beauty is as beauty  
         does, my mother says,  
who is beautiful & speaks 

loud so she can be understood  
         unlike poets who can’t  
talk to save their lives 

so they write. 

✶ 

It’s like a language,  
         loss—  
can be  

         learned only  
by living—there— 

✶ 

What anchors us  
         to this thirst  
& earth, its threats  

& thinnesses—  
         its ways of waning  
& making the most of— 

of worse & much  
         worse—if not  
this light lifting  

up over the ridge

Kevin Young

2.  My #2 son lifts me :)

3. On the benefits of Beauty...

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