LOVE
Longing that outlasts every season / Opening wide without a guarantee
BLISS
Brightness that arrives without a name / Letting every burden find the floor
MIRTH
Mostly found when plans go sideways / Inside the laughter of old friends
GROWTH
Going to where the discomfort lives and sitting with it is how you grow / Reaching past the comfortable version of what you are takes daily courage
CHEER
Crying out across the space to meet you / Here, your name is called and you belong
LAKE
Lying under the fog as if asleep / A colour between grey and silver and green
PETAL
Pressed between the pages of the old book / Even now it holds the shape of what it was
WILL
What you choose persistently becomes what you eventually are / In the long run, the decision repeated is the only one that counts
CREEK
Chattering over the pebbled shallow bed / Running its small errand to the river
LOVE
Long after reason ends, this stays / Only love can hold what logic drops
BLOOM
Between the stones a brave flower opens / Light finds it before anything else does
HOME
How it looks when no one is performing anything / Open window for the sound of the street below
OPEN
Offering space inside yourself for what you do not know / Places not yet visited exist inside the self
FIELD
Foxes crossing at the far end in the grey / In the late July heat the combine starts
GROW
Giving yourself permission to be different from what you were is growth / Real becoming is uncomfortable and necessary and ultimately worth it
CALL
Coming to yourself always happens when a true call reaches you / A vocation is a call that you will hear no matter how far you run
CHILD
Counting cracks in the pavement all the way home / How the day’s events arrive all at once
CHILD
Careful with a broken thing they found outside / Homework spread across the wrong table
DANCE
Drifting around the kitchen in socks / A song that appeared from nowhere
PEACE
Pulling inward to the wordless center / Each breath becoming simpler and more full