the peace porch

day however many on this beautiful front porch of mine.  today, maybe for the first time, I noticed how different the view from my spot is as the seasons change.  maybe it's because it's been summer for 9 months now and the scenery didn't really have a chance to change until the cold came in.  maybe it's a lot of reasons, but the one I believe the most is that I am changing and that is allowing me to appreciate and take better note of just how enchanting the world around us can be when we switch things up a little.

I'm starting to slow down and take in my surroundings; opening myself up to loving and connecting with the different moods the universe sets my day up for.  funny thing is, the mood is usually really happy.  more and more happy days.  no matter what color the trees outside my windows are.  if it's cold out here, I plug in my heater and put on a jacket and scarf and instantly, I achieve the same peace of mind I have every single time I'm out here.  sometimes, I don't even sweep up the leaves that have fallen overnight because it reminds me that something else was enjoying this porch of mine while I was sleeping.

there's something to be said about adapting to the cold, the heat, the rain, whatever mother nature throws our way.  we put on jackets, we take off jackets, we wear nothing at all.  we adapt, she does not.  the same could be said about people.  people will always be people.  we must adapt to whatever the needs of people are, just like we adapt ourselves to whatever temperature it is outside.

right now, at this very moment in time, we have a chance to adapt our minds along with our bodies.  times are different than they were 50 years ago.  it's time to look around at what is best for everyone, not just our own selfish interests.  walk slower, be patient, accept that there are differences and changes that make this world so impossibly perfect that if we left it the same, it wouldn't be so shiny.

what I'm saying is:  it's time to check the weather and dress accordingly.

it's all happening

Orion in the winter sky

Gives me hope that no other constellation can contrive

The movement of the stars

The sway of the hips our Mother Earth can conjure

Today is a blessing, tomorrow is a gift

That we unwrap as our eyes greet the morning sun

Sometimes we wander 

In a world that is not built for our souls

Sometimes we encounter those that wish to blind us

From the ethereal beauty inherent to our beings

We are given eyes to see, yet we close them every chance we get 

Because the light is blinding

Walk into the sun

Shout as loud as your lungs will allow

This is the way

To the peace

The beauty

That our children are meant to inherit

Anything less is a travesty

The fervor, the intensity

That is what we should leave

The love

The honesty

The perpetual grace

That our bodies allow

The wind through the chimes

The front porch song

The music of the movement of the world around us

The only true currency in this world

Is how we achieve immortality through what we leave

In our words

Our images

Our view of how the world should be

Our utopian dream