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Last Week of School

Bear with me, friends.  I have one more week of busy school and I have a to do list the size of Madison.  I will post more and catch up in a week. 

 

Week 108: Seeing Beauty

Reading my favorite photographers and blogs around the world tonight... I was struck once again by this photographer.  Her work is more than astonishing; it reaches deep inside.  It does more than inspire me; it make me feel lucky to be alive. 

While reading another blog, I found this poem:

Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where
like a shadow or a friend.



Naomi Shihab Nye

 

Here is my boy.  My muse.  My Liam. 

  

 

 

Must Read

This is all I have for today. 

A well written post by another mother out there.  Writing about what is true. 

Seeing Past What it Seems.

She ends it with, "Please be gentle with me, I am doing my best." 

My friend that recommended this article also has another quote on her facebook wall,

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- Plato

So true.  Please read.