Such fun last night. Poet Brian Teare was quite wonderful. And the kids were grand: Baby poets, doing wonderful grown up interesting work.
And taking comfort in one another. And courage.
That’s the purpose of a pack.
We should all know who’s in our pack!
Read together, write together, hang out together… and dare together. it’s a good model.
It’s a good model if your Pack is actually working for Peace — and not working from Fear.
The poets were working for Peace.
And we give thanks!
It was just a sweet little caress in the grand scheme of things. But there it was, a beautiful little violet in grass that has not yet browned up for the winter.
All around it, the cooler weather is causing the trees to begin to burnish. There’s not been a freeze yet, but we’re all anticipating. All my gardener friends are busy putting their gardens to bed.
But in the meantime, one bold, and yes, foolhardy, violet is dancing in the grass.
“Look at ME!” she cries. And we do. Silly, we think, don’t you know you’ll be gone, soon.
And yet we look. and admire.
There is perhaps something to foolhardy declarations of Beauty and Possibility. After all Peace is not going to be won by our doing the same old thing. That as we have been told so many times, simply leads to insanity.
So Peace. Peace of the beautiful what is. and Peace of the wild, outrageous Violet. Peace. We’ll take whatever leads us in that direction!
To be courageous is always a bit lunatic, isn’t it? To dare to do something that is outside our comfort zone. Luckily it’s the Ripe Garden Moon and it’s full of comfort for when we do the crazy courageous things.
It’s funny what supports us in courage. In the case of my friend, she relied on simple good manners to carry her up and over.
In my case, I just didn’t want to have an unmatched set. And really, everyone else had forgotten I made a mistake and even if they were holding it against me, who cares? It’s my life I want to have organized, nothing to do with anyone else. (so who’s my harshest critic, right, me). So I could just do what I needed to do.
Things happen that need to be dealt with. Sometimes they’re fairly small things. Sometimes they’re big and horrible. But we do what we have to… or at least what we can of what we have to. We step up and do the hard work.
And that is just that…
A certain kind of Peace comes in doing what needs to be done. In doing the right thing. In daring. We like ourselves when we dare for things that matter. so, let’s shall we, let’s Peace.
