Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
On this Earth Day
As we are all
One,
Cooped in
Holding on,
Blue around the fingertips
Blue around the lips,
Blue in oceans, and
In the reflections of the deep,
Blue in sorrow
Blue as sky lift
Dark sapphire
To the reified aqua
Of hope.
May we rise
Like the sun,
And not forget how
We can
Help each other
Cope.
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Na'ama Yehuda 
Such beauty in your image but the words are the true story, Na’Ama! Who isn’t feeling blue these days? Perfect for Earth Day 2020, and we shall all hope and cope together!
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Thank you, Terri! And … there are different kinds of blue … A friend of mine is worried about her parent, whose is in the hospital with COVID19 and whose blue lips were the last things she saw on video-chat before urging him to call the hospital. Another friend has a medically fragile child, whose blue’ish finger tips remind her of how oxygen is not something that little heart pumps easily even with healthy lungs. And then there is the beautiful dome of blue above our heads. And the blue-togetherness of clapping and banging pots and pans at 7pm every evening. And … the child who told me the other day “I’m feeling blue not seeing you.” So … we’re are all one. All on one blue marble hurtling through space, around the sun …
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Is this why we say we feel blue when we’re down? Cos we feel like we lack oxygen? BTW, fantastic photo. 🙂
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Thanks, Crispina! I took it from the airplane, someplace above the Arctic, between night and light. … And, who knows …
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I took it to be taken from an aircraft. I like that, between night and light 🙂
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🙂 Yep. Not a spacecraft, but it felt like it! 😉
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I bet. But what a fantastic flight!
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T’was! 🙂
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I can imagine
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🙂
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We do need to think about how to support one another during this crisis. Some people handle isolation very differently than others.
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That is so very true! Personally, I am doing quite well, but I know of people who are really struggling, emotionally, personally, in their relationships … and that’s before all those who are physically ill or unwell or isolated because they tested positive for a disease that killed so many around here. So, yes, finding ways to support each other is so very important. Always, but especially in times like these. Hope you are well – or well enough!
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Agree with Crispina. That photo is amazing. As is the poem…
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Thank you, Dale! 🙂
It was a fun photo to take and it doesn’t do justice to how stunning the view from the window was!
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I can only imagine!
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🙂
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