For the child who finally got a clean bill of health, long enough into remission at last, after three bouts of cancer, four surgeries, five courses of chemo, two collapsed lungs, a resistant infection, and more invasive treatments and hospital days than one can count (though I’m sure her parents had counted. Every. Single. One.)
Whew.
We’re so relieved.
You rock, little one!
For The Daily Post
Photo: C. Moriah-Gibor
Be a father to the vulnerable
Guide the path of those who need
A lift
A helping hand.
Be a father to those seeking
To find shelter
Who need help to
Understand.
Show the way.
Provide
Kind counsel.
If by biology or presence
Be the best
Model
You can.
For it is by kindness
That fathering
Takes hold
And
Grows children
Strong
In body, heart
And mind.
May the bud of hope bloom on
To flower large
Inside your heart
And set your soul to blossom
Wide
Throughout your mind.
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Heart Gardener (photo: O. Halperin-Barlev)
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illustration: grandmasgraphics.com
She is a paragon of deliberateness. Personifies all things just-so aligned. Her veggies must be on the left, her french-fries on the right.
She draws her letters so they march in perfect rows. No effort (or eraser) spared to ensure strict discipline among her lines.
She is a model of sheer focus. She will not be dissuaded. She absolutely won’t be rushed.
She examines every detail for correctness, chooses only hues that match.
She rejects any suggestion to skip corners or leave even the least uneven mark.
She will garner no discussion. Her exactness is fiercely protected.
All things must be in place. Each squiggle inspected.
Until an ice-cream truck chimes outdoors … and messy life once more accepted.
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She came in half-victorious, half-blushing.
“I have a earring,” she announced.
“Emphasis on the singular,” the mom added pointedly.
The five-year-old glanced at her mom, narrowed her eyes in potential protestation and shrugged. “I still have a earring,” she stressed. “See?” she turned her face to showcase a glittery heart on an exposed earlobe. I peeked around her head: the other earlobe was conveniently concealed under a lock of hair.
“She refused to have the other one done,” the mom sighed.
“It hurt!” the gal accused.
“I told you it would hurt a little,” her mom responded, “you said you wanted earrings anyway.”
“Yeah, but it hurt a LOT!”
I had a feeling this was a dialogue with some accumulated mileage.
“So …” I interfered, “you have one pierced ear … Doesn’t it mean you can wear only half of your new earrings?”
She considered that.
“Yeah,” she twisted her lip in contemplation. “But … maybe I’ll have the other one done … I mean … when I’m older. Maybe like, twelve. Or even nine.”
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My nephew took this photo some years back during a summer hiking trip. I love it for its absolute focus and the mystery of the inhabitant that had created this fabulously textured, now deserted, sheltered place of transformation. A dried out speck in the blurry landscape and yet so wholly a world onto its own, now gone.
Photo: A. Asif
For The Daily Post – Photo Challenge
Photo: Playbuzz.com
Taper your prejudices
So they not block the light
Of real understanding.
Taper your worries
So they let in
Newborn paths.
Taper your reliance on
Hearing only what fits
Your opinion.
Taper your righteous
Indignation
So it leaves room
For your heart
And mind
To truly
Expand.
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