Downsizing

What started out a trimming of our old lilac bush

ended up being so much more!

Finding much old, dead wood,

he kept cutting back...

He would have gone further,

but I assured him I liked this interesting shape 

It has character, I think.

i give up

i've written that before

and meant it

about other things

and everything

but i'm writing it again

about something

and everything

and mean it again

as far as i know

(rlg, 6-27-2020)

...One of the daily ten lines I've written since Ash Wednesday...

Even Behind Closed Doors

the first easter

no crowds gathered

nor cameras

but one by one

or two or three

he met them

where they were

even behind closed doors

Christ alone, alive

my Hope

(rlg, 4-12-2020)

Words Are Inadequate

"Installed the (kitchen) fan," 

she wrote on her journal page.

Then she realized the words didn't begin to capture

the experience--

the dismantling of the old;

the unpacking of the new;

spreading out the instructions

ready for reading;

the tools;

the ladder;

the patient assembler;

the helpful hands of elderly father;

the assembly of parts;

connecting of wires;

steps to the breaker box in the garage;

the return to flip on the switch...

And lights!

And the cool breeze of the fan! 

Yes.

Words ARE inadequate to express or explain much of ANYthing,

she concluded.