The Gentle Path

Be kind to yourself.

This path that you've chosen

is full of twists and turns,

challenges and surprises

around every bend.

It is the hard path,
the uphill journey.
Each day a new chance
to fall
and to rise again.

Now you've come so far!
Just stop for a moment
and enjoy the view!

 Then move onward,

eyes fixed ahead,

following the light

with the wind in your hair

and a hop in your step.

And always,
be kind to yourself.

 

Open Arms

Free to just be...

The Beacon

 On this earth
where sorrows abound
and hope is often
hardly found

a glimpse of light,
Love calls me on
where eyes can't see
somewhere beyond.

A simple guide
I long to be
to show the kindness
shown to me.

Ripples of Beauty

The Good Life

Who would I be

if I'd not stop to see

all the beauty and love that surrounds me?

A cool summer breeze,

sweet bird song, bright flowers,

a smile and a kiss from my child...

Each day I must choose

to complain or give thanks

to see darkness or glimpses of light.

And when the day comes

that I lay down my head
and my eyes close for sleep everlasting,

I'll remember the ways that
Love filled all my days

and give thanks for the good life I've had.

The Explorer (excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's Selected Poetry, 1898)

'There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation,'
So they said, and I believed it -- broke my land and sowed my crop --

Built my barns and strung my fences in the little border station

Tucked away below the foothills where the trails run out and stop:

Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes

On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:

'Something hidden. -- Go and find it. -- Go and look behind the Ranges --

'Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!'

So I went...

The shades of life...

From purple to red,

blue, pink, yellow, white

and all of the various greens,

springtime is bursting with colour!

Unlike in autumn,

with hints of orange,
yellow and red and brown,

whose lovely fall tones

bring solace and peace

in spring, the fresh hues bring us hope!
All together their harmonies sing to us
of the different shades of life.