Light is All Around Me: October 2014

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But this is what I’m finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way.

That thing I’m waiting for, for that adventure, that movie-score-worthy experience unfolding

gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and

apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and

secrets - this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of us will ever experience.

— Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life, 2010

Monday, October 27, 2014

at Autumn-swathed hills,

Reds frothing;

Yellows, oranges throwing flame;

Eyes gaze and gape and glory

but I will forever find it

not enough.

I want to

Run and dance and bask in it,

Shout anthems while I splash in it,

Drink it by the cupful and then

laugh it out my nose.

Taste it! Juice runs off my chin!

Ride it bareback! Breathe it in!

‘Til, full-bellied, I can grin

that finally,

I know Fall.

Maybe then I’ll be content

Just Looking.