We each must do our best with the opportunities we are given even when they seem beyond us. And we can choose those friends who help us realize the best that we can become. i live through hope and faith in those friends. Knowing they are there gives me courage to address a home of 21 rooms and 7 generations of accumulated stuff…
Here is an Advent calendar of Esperanza that i made some years back for our children. And, yes! it has 21 rooms, a barn, 2 guest cottages, and 2 garden sheds all packed to overflowing and, and, and….
I know I can,
I don’t know how
To write the Poem
That is Now.
You’re in it
That I’m sure.
It’s just you’re not
An easy aperture
Of flesh and blood
And touchable sense;
But more a Dream
Of unshakable permanence-
Whirling in my mind
Directing every Attitude
That shapes my course
In unending Gratitude.
I don’t know how.
I can, you’ll see
Live the life
You wished for me:
To put my mark
upon this Place
and do it all
with simple Grace.
Angel in the dust
for my readers who can’t know all the particulars i will have to spend less time painting and posting to this blog in order to make more time for the house but i won’t disappear. I’ll still be here and listening-