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ANEW
Another beginning is possible from any point along the way / Not every fresh start requires a new geography or new face
COOK
Cutting slowly because the radio is good today / One pot and the whole kitchen involved somehow
WILD
What is untamed in you still carries its original intelligence / In the chaotic space before the order, something genuine lives
SKY
Streaked with the last of the day’s last light / Knowing it will darken but not minding yet
CORE
Centering in what is most essential is a daily practice / Out beyond all the peripheral is what you actually are
ROAD
Rain turning everything to grey and silver / Overhead the sky deciding something
ROSE
Reaching past the gate toward the open road / Open even in the days before the rain
STORM
Saying nothing until it says everything / Taking the roof tiles and the old crow’s nest
ROOM
Rain on the window and nowhere to go / Opening the curtains halfway and no more
SIGH
Something settles when you breathe it out / Inside the pause between the noise
HOME
Hands on the kettle before the coat is off / One drawer that never fully closes
GRIEF
Going back to find them in a dream / Reaching for a hand that isn't there
ALLOW
Accepting what is true about this moment takes the most courage / Letting what wants to come come is not giving up control
DOOR
Day ends with the click of a lock / Opening to whatever the evening brings
WAVE
Welling up from somewhere far offshore / Arriving without warning at the sand
BOOK
Back in the bag for the commute that didn’t happen / Open at the marked page and the mark made sense
WISH
Without the wishing, the wanting has no direction and the effort has no star / In the space between the longing and the reaching, the wish lives and waits
LAUGH
Loose and sudden, no apology / A gift the body gives without a reason
OPEN
Offering space inside yourself for what you do not know / Places not yet visited exist inside the self
DUSK
Drawing the colour from the highest clouds last / Until the blue is gone and the black starts
TRUST
Turning toward the one who might betray you / Resting anyway and choosing to believe
ELATE
Electricity inside a quiet afternoon / Light arriving faster than you track
KNOW
Knowledge starts with admitting all you do not know / Nothing understood too quickly stays understood for long
LAMP
Left on when the reading becomes sleeping / A small sun in the corner of the room
GALE
Going through the treetops like a rumor / All the loose things lifted and then lost
CARE
Carrying the weight of someone else / A hand that reaches in the dark
LILY
Lifting white above the muddy pond / In the still heat of July it opens
WORD
What is spoken aloud becomes a thing that lives outside of you / Only the right word in the right moment has the power to change
WIND
What cannot be held can still be felt and known completely / Invisible forces move the visible world more than we remember
DUSK
Deepening the red until the red is gone / Under the oaks the bats begin their work
GLEE
Growing large with something uncontained / Light that breaks through just for you
DANCE
Done before breakfast with no particular reason / Arms moving because the body wanted to
TEA
Taken without sugar since last year / Every sip a kind of pause
BLISS
Bathing in a light that has no name / Letting go of every weight
CORAL
Created by the smallest of the living / Over a thousand years it builds a mountain
STONE
Stripped from the hillside by the river long before / Time left its weight but took away its edge
GOOD
Goodness is not easy, it is the harder path made beautiful / Out at the far side of the hard thing, something real always waits
FOND
Finding warmth in every memory / Often turning back to think of you
CARE
Carried forward past the point of comfort / A love that does not ask what it will cost