Random

What I know about my son is that the more you back off the more he will do what needs to be done.

Gratitude

I am thankful today for my eyes opening and witnessing this day
I am thankful for love and hope
For my family and this long weekend together
For outings and good food
For long drives and movies
For conversations
I am thankful for friends
For safe travels
Peace
Ease
Joy

NaNoWriMo - day 30 - Bliss

Ending NaNoWriMo this year happy for my cousin, Ursula who got married today. As easy as that. Welcome to the family, Larry!

A poem a day for 2013 - day 333 - Clear

Did you sit on the porch today
And see the sky
Did the clouds turn red before your eyes
A dog bark at your feet
A car creep down your block
Did you hear the grass grow
Say hello to your neighbor
Rest your elbows on your knees
Your head in your palms

Did you count your breath in the silence of the day
Let a worm crawl across your toes
Sip tea and ginger
Count the cracks in the road

Did you live today
With your hands in your lap
Your head in the sky
With love on your tongue

NaNoWriMo - day 29 - We lost. We lived.

I went to the Long Beach Poly football game tonight with my mother, niece and a friend of my mother's from the church. Poly lost against Mater Dei 30 - 0. Sucks but it provided a good conversation on the way home for my niece about being able to lose and dust yourself off and how losing is a part of winning. Life.

A poem a day for 2013 - day 332 - Exhale

I am thankful for this time
Family
Rain
Friends
Food
Freedom
This time
Joy
This easy
Love blessed
Day

NaNoWriMo - day 28 - Random. Thankful.

I am thankful for a car and being off the bus. God is good!

I am still processing seeing a woman thinking about killing herself by jumping off a bridge last night.

I am thankful for my family being together today.

I am more in love with life than I have ever been before.

A poem a day for 2013 - day 331 - For her

While driving last night
Late in the night
Late in the night with my family
My mother
My niece, my son
I saw a woman
Standing on the railing of a bridge
Holding onto a light pole
Light
Holding best as she could
Thinking
About...

I screamed
My niece
My son
My mother

We pulled to the side to say prayer for the woman
On a bridge
On Wardlow
Above the flood control
A black woman
With the saddest eyes I have ever seen

Wait, I screamed
I love you, was all I could think to say

My mother called the police
Who showed up
Thank God
In the name of sweet Jesus
Thank God

Wait, I said
I love you
Was all I could think to say

NaNoWriMo - day 27 - Family

At peace in praise and thanksgiving for family. For long drives. Warm hearts. Shared blood. Us.

A poem a day for 2013 - day 330 - Praise

My heart open
These hands
Fingers spread
Head lifted
In love

NaNoWriMo - day 26 - Sunny. Santa Monica.

An easy walk today with much inside my head and V by my side. Blessings abound. Peace is present.

A poem a day for 2013 - day 329 - Yours truly

Dear life:
Yes