Alsea Spring (WC)

 

Alsea Spring

Valleys have their advantages–-rivers love ‘em. Alsea

River across the street. Though yesterday found Joseph 

at Lobster Creek. Near hour away that, as most everything is.  

Not complaining. To this quiet leaning, right in. That is till birdsong 

breaks in–-Spring’s mourning dove, raven, swallow, goldfinch trill. 

Morn’s Robin. Noon’s buzzard, rides thermals, there over 

mountain crest. As below all’s by woodsmoke blessed. While 

Deb’s Cafe serves biscuits and gravy (Joseph’s accompaniment: 

growl of contentment) and my hand finds smoothest daffodil

bloom and stem

he's ushered in.

*Included in letter for Daisy Barrett Nash's Writers At Play, letter writing series, 2022. 

Morning Mantras (WC)

  

(June 12, 2022, Trinity Sunday, Eastern Orthodox Pentecost, feast day of Our Lady of Mantalto, Saint Anna of Kashin, Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist, Blessed Pelagia Lenti of Milazzo (whose Guardian Angel could be seen by some), Blessed Florida Cevoli (rotara...), Venerable Hildegard Birgan. On Jewish calendar today commemorates Moses Atop Mount Sinai . Image from here.)

Morning Mantras

“Morning Wenny Penny” (this from Mom)

“Good morning my little ball of happiness” (this to 

my Joseph, who when grumpy seeks some humor)

“Hi happy ball” (my mind grappling for

handholds, translation, when startled awake, 

Joseph’s laughter),

as turn to Joseph’s Mama’s “Each morning it's

resurrection, forgiveness, a gift of another day”, as

this morning winks, wakes,

for the opening.

*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by the concept of dawn; from Lisa Freedman’s BreatheReadWrite, June 12, 2022.

Things To Do When Lost (WC)

  

(June 6, 2022, second day of Shavuot/Octave of Pentecost (Whit Monday). Feast day of Mary Mother of the Church ("[Saint Augustine] says that Mary is the mother of the members of Christ, because with charity she cooperated in the rebirth of the faithful into the Church....[While Saint Leo the Great] says that the birth of the Head is also the birth of the body, thus indicating that Mary is at once Mother of Christ, the Son of God, and mother of the members of his Mystical Body, which is the Church”--Pope Francis’ 2018 decree). Feast day of the Institution of the Nuns of the Visitation by Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jane de Chantal (above), of the Vodika Virgin Mary, of the Pimen Icon of the Mother of God, and of Felicia de Montmorency (one of the original Visitation nuns), Saint Candida of Rome and sainted family, and Saint Grazia of Germagno. On Jewish calendar today is the Sanctification of the Moon. Image from here. )

Things To Do When Lost

GPS is great for telling you where you are, or how far you’ve come. But not necessarily which direction to go. And if you happen to get it wet, you’re in deep kimchi.–-Joseph MacRae, the “End-of-an-Era Man”

1. When lost, humm a tune.

 

2. Give in to sweet tooth (gotta keep up your strength).

3. Consult Compass (you know, that little round thing,

dwarfed by your screen)--head true north.

4. Or look see which side of tree the moss grows on,

    or where sun is over the mountain.

5. Or wait for calm of night, look up to stars.

6. If all else fails, set out an SOS for morning.

7. Know that you are never truly lost.