I'm Here!

Our Cottage by the Lake has a lovely screened porch to inspire contemplation, conversation, poetry, art and laziness. Wonderful bag of tricks! I have yet to write a poem about it but being here urged me to find "practicing to walk LIKE A HERON" by Jack Ridl. Because of this book my appreciation for poetry became part of my soul. This morning I came across one line in one poem that described exactly where we are now:

"We are simply rising and diving within the light."  Jack Ridl

Jack Ridl

This is how I think it is. Poets of observation ride the surface of events and life. They don't go deep and get stuck under their own emotions. They stay aloft to notice the present moment moving between layers of interpretive reality. Where we are now is simply next door to all there is that waits for us to open the blinds in the morning.

"Yesterday, when I dug into our garden's
matted earth, I felt your hand slide
into mine as if it were putting on
a glove. We went together
into the awkward ground, turned the soil,
let it slip between our fingers."

From, I Am Wearing Your Shirt by Jack Ridl