“Here Comes the Sun”

“Here Comes the Sun”

 

It has been a long and dark time.
We need no reminder of it.

So much darkness,
So much deception.

So much distortion
Of 
Reality.

So much death.

And yet……….

Amanda reminds us:

Modified,
Shifted,
Ended,
Began
Again

Something else.

Something of
Inclusivity,

Of
Transparency,

Of
Possibility,

Of
Integrity.

Of course, of course—
There is so much to be done.

Of course, of course—
We are a major mess.

The fault lines
Horridly
And
Gratefully
Exposed
During these years
Call us into action.

We are 
A broken nation.

We are.

What is possible?

What might be?

Who can imagine?

The day of the inauguration, for me was one 
Of tears and inspiration and shift.

The night,
My dreams
Were filled 
With

Running,
Fleeing,

Bad guys
Coming.

Hiding
And
Danger.

Old dreams 
And
Current 
Dreams
Merged.

I woke exhausted,
Confused.

And
Yet
Perhaps
With a modicum of hope,
I can begin to purge this panic?

With a dose 
Of connectivity
And trust,
I can
Begin detoxing
This trauma?

Amanda tells us:

“Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.”

Dear friends,
That sounds 
Right,
So 
Very
Right, to me.

We are
Simply unfinished.

I have two things to share, in this week of hope and heartbreak and exhaustion and possibility. 

First, the heart of my heart, Our Mary Oliver, offers us this moment perfectly.  I want to live into her invitation to life:

“It is a serious thing
Just to be alive
On this fresh morning
In this broken world.”

Fresh and broken?  

Fresh and broken
In the same moment?

Yep, fresh, newly dawned, snowflakes softly finding their way to earth, effortlessly, perfectly.

Broken, indeed.  

Loss and chaos and death and deception,
In the midst of
Slowly
Dancing
Snowflakes.

Broken and fresh, in the same moment.

All true.
All inevitable.
All sacred.

We can hold it all.
We are
Holding it all.

What does Mary mean by “it is a serious thing….”?

On some level, I hear it as a call to action.

To live into kindness,
Into
Connection,

Into
Connectivity,

To self
To other
To all.

What do you think?

~~~

Secondly, my next offer of inspiration to you:

Here they are.  

In my world, (forgive me, this comment will both age me and wildly and flagrantly display my rigidity, at the same moment), music really hasn’t gotten better than this: