Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Writer, Producer, Director of the Greatest Show in the Milky Way?

When I came out this morning there was one bright star alone in the sky.  It was still fairly dark and it shone so bright.  I got out my phone and planet app and it told me it was Jupiter.  I was overwhelmed with praise for You.  Even our phones give us ample opportunity to praise and if we need anything these days it is to praise more.  Praise is happy work, good work, it is life being lived well.  Retirement has given me so much more time outdoors.  I get out before daybreak and all the woods are filled with unknown lyrical voices from living things causing me all kinds of wandering thoughts.  Light comes on, the river is smooth, the water birds begin to stir, and slowly our star gives my eyes things to see.  I read The Only Ancient Text, silently sip good coffee, and watch the Best Picture; Academy Lifetime Achievement award, Our Earth, replay again for the umpteenth time, The greatest show in the Milky Way.  Writer, Producer, Director: GOD 



Tuesday, August 8, 2023

She Didn't Know I Have Always Been Looking

I looked at my lover the other day.  She didn’t know I was looking.  She has become timeworn; wrinkles and age are clear now.  I was overwhelmed with loving devotion to and for her.  There are times when life comes to me so deeply filled with meaning that my heart aches within me, a deep seeded treasure of Eden.  I have lived all that age she’s now adorned with.  Oh, we have lived a charmed life, she charming me.  Her age has made her more beautiful than ever before, an ancient knowing of life unimaginable when you frolic in the daisies of youth.  She leads me by the still waters of our greying roses, our later years.  She didn’t know I've always been looking, and seeing the most alluring creature.