At age three and a half to four and a half
Regardless of what the weather appears like to me
Everyday he wakes up
Patters into my room if he’s not already sleeping with me and says,
‘Grandma Beth! Grandma Beth! It’s a sunny day outside! Let’s go play!’
Edan waking up next to me, with the ubiquitous Iron Man on his pillow, April 2009. Edan is almost 4 here.
I wonder when I see him again in May as he turns five
Will each day still be a full scale potentiality, an unwritten slate
or will it already be boringly marked and limited with the usual
clouds, rain, snow, sleet?
Edan, October 2009, almost four and a half Don’t mess with this kid!
This poem is a submission for the One Single Impression prompt: sunny days. Thanks to Jeeves of Silence is Poetic for the prompt. Head over to the OSI link to sashay through some sunny days.
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About Beth Patterson
The Virtual Tea House website became 'word-ripe' when, over a cup of jasmine green, I realized that the web has an expanding part to play in the communal aspects of spiritual growth.
With a master's degree in religion, my career spans 20 years in end of life care and I currently work in the field of child abuse intervention and advocacy.
Here in beautiful Central Oregon, my spiritual homes of the high desert and the mountains are both in proximity. And for good measure, four hours away is Grandmother Ocean and the stunning Oregon Coast.
I'm making decent progress on the goal set by my mother early on: she taught us that the goal of humanity should be to become ever-more eccentric, i.e. more fully human.
Entering the 'forest-dweller' phase of life, I am honored to host the Virtual Tea House for all who wish to explore how our lives are enriched and made new a thousand times each day by the spirituality we embody. Exploring this engagement together is the purpose of the Virtual Tea House.
Welcome! Let's have a cup of virtual tea together and share what brings us joy, what we are being taught by life, how we are leaning into the Big Questions posed to us each day in sometimes 'distressing disguises'.
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