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Life Is a Gift

It’s a blue sky day,
one of those
beauteous blueful,
joyously jocular,
splendidly splashy,
exceptional days ~
I long to shout
LIFE IS A GIFT
in big unmissable
letters across the
blue shiny yonder,
to imprint them
indelibly on your
mind, so you’ll…

Remember when
the dark clouds roll
in, on a day when
life feels pissy and
oh so problematic,
to take a deep breath,
and close your eyes,
and gently pull the
gray gloom aside,
to see those big
oh so true words
I etched on blue
for you, so that
you’d never forget…

Life is a gift.

Life Is a Gift from The Samurai’s Pen: Poetry for Our Times © Susan L Hart

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Rooted, but Flowing

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Virginia Woolf’s quote speaks to the ideal achievement of balance between stability and allowance for risk.

People often think of rooted as a physical place, but I would say not. Really being rooted is knowing one’s self and one’s capabilities to the fullest extent, so that there is a foundation within that no outer circumstance could ever shake. When one is rooted internally, there is room for risk. Risk leads to new opportunities and growth, and expansion of self. Life becomes more exciting, fuller, and richer.

Be rooted, but flowing.