For yesterday’s Daily Prompt: Chaos…
clusters of seedlings
scattered randomly on air
find root from chaos.
©kat 10 May 2016
Ready…set…begin…
Happy ONE Year Blogiversary to ME! I can’t believe I have been here for one full year! What an exciting adventure this has been. 581 posts, 18,743 views, 5,124 visitors from over 70 countries around the world and over 500 followers later…and I am blown away by the community here. To think I was nervous that first day when I set up my blog to go global, sharing the link with only a few of my closest friends! Now, a year later, I am smitten by this forum, by you, my fellow bloggers and by the freedom of expression through words that I have come to experience here. Looking forward to many more years of bloggeriffic, blogtastic, blogificent hours reading your lovely words and splatting a few of my own into this amazing little universe of ours. Hugs!
I have stared at this blank space long enough, pouring my heart and soul into social media for wandering eyes to pass over. It’s time to get serious about my writing and art. With that, today’s musing….
We fuss and fluster over
this and that and then some,
posturing our prerogatives
into my me mine our us-es
digging our toes into cavernous
trenches, tin-foil topped at the
ready our well rehearsed
defenses singing la-la-la …
But truth…but Truth, sweet siren
songstress, rides the wind to slay
our madness tickling
our righteous fancy with
words so simply sweet to jolt
us from egoistic rabid
stances to rouse epiphanistic
chants of ah-ah-ah!
(c) kat in May 2015
A Perfect Mother’s Day Weekend
A perfect Mother’s Day weekend is coming to an end. Perfect, not because it was perfect…perfect because it was not…perfect.
Like life, the weekend was peppered with disappointing mishaps…the gift that didn’t arrive on time and a flat tire that derailed our plans for the rest of Sunday morning after a lovely breakfast.
To my daughters who were disappointed that their gift didn’t arrive on time, knowing that it is on its way stirs memories of the months I waited for each one of you. You have already given me the best gift of all. You have each given me your presence, your sweet smiling faces, your laughter, and the precious gift of watching you grow into amazing human beings. I’m glad to wait a day or two longer for your special gift. Each time I look at it, I’ll think of all of these things, ponder them in my heart because that’s what mothers do.
And about that inconvenient flat tire. To my first born who delayed her busy schedule to help us get the tire repaired, I admit I was almost grateful for the detour. It gave me a few more minutes with you and reminded me of what I already know. Though we are all busy with work and school, spiraling in different directions day to day, family, our family is the gravity that holds us together and keeps us close. We are connected by an invisible cord.
My idea of perfection might seem a little odd to you. But it is the messy imperfections in life that touch my heart the deepest.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Shi Sai Sunday, A Week in ReVerse – 8 May 2016
Happy Sunday. And Happy Mother’s Day! Today’s shi sai doesn’t really need an introduction or summation. It stands alone. It says it all.
But this I know. Having a mother, being one and having the joy of watching my own daughters become mothers is a mysterious, miraculous, demonstration of grace. Grace….embracing, releasing, forgiving, healing…with love unconditional, deep and infinite.
“Mother” is a word that conjures up a full range of emotions. For some, love and nurture, and for others, it can be…complicated. But for all of us there is grace to be who we were born to be.
Shi Sai Sunday, A Week in ReVerse – 8 May 2016
grace always makes room
flooding the earth slaying the soul
every morning before dawn
shades of soft wisteria
dreams, sweet dreams, quenching
those guilty of turpitude,
so I couldn’t pass this one up
you already know
surrounded by your favorite flowers, thorns and all, I would like to thank you Mom, for inspiring me even in your brokenness to become the daughter, woman and mother I am today….
hug your babies while they’re young
time passes in a blink!~kat
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