Heart Gardener (photo: O. Halperin-Barlev)
If you create anything, create hope.
If you create anything, create in light.
If you create anything, create with love.
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If You Create
Temporary Paragon
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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Half-Punctured
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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Empty Focus
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
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Taper to Expand
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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Triumphant
There is no joy as radiant nor victory as sweet as that of conquering the cherry tree!
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
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A Moment in Time
A moment in time (Photo: Atara Katz)
In the pause
Between the breath in
And breath out
There’s a moment
In time
Of
Eternity
Slowed,
All movements
Frozen,
Thawed,
Life
Buoyed.
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Be Tender
Photo: dayviews.com
Be tender as you tender views and voice perspectives.
Be tender as you offer paths that some refuse (or fear) to take.
Be tender as you formulate your retorts to invectives.
Be tender even as you know how much’s at stake.
Be tender as you tender truth
As you hold fast to honest, fair objectives.
Do not lose heart
Even as some lose moral compass
And attempt to stain integrity
As disrespect.
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