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This has been a day of many poems to live even though I feel I have done almost nothing except sit and stare. Well, maybe not exactly nothing because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. I did talk to my sister-in-law in Britain. Something I do every week and we remembered my late husband and Tommy Makem, whom my sister-in-law had met once long ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. I did sort out travel arrangements with a friend to go to a celebration of life out of the city tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. I am writing my second post of the day as I live a poem or several poems today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. I did do the two crossword puzzles in the paper this morning. Not exactly work but better than FB. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. I did add about 20 folk songs to my phone for my next walk. Adding songs always takes me at least two hours. But I did learn how to do an airdrop to my phone. All is not lost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe it wasn\u2019t a completely wasted day. Maybe it was my version of disappearing; except it wasn\u2019t into nature. It was into the overlooked cracks in the couch where small crumbs rustle and spawn, because I didn\u2019t manage to haul out the vacuum cleaner this week. Well, I needed peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great heron and wood drake aren\u2019t as near at hand as dust bunnies and fungus gnats, but I have made peace with them over the years, as I have with the crumbs and the indelible sofa spots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe my peace with wild things is only when I walk. When I\u2019m at home I make my peace with wanton things, the restless crumbs and the mop-blind dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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