☀️ The Daily Boost #799
Hear all the possibilities
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POSSIBILITIES Linda Pastan Today I drove past a house we almost bought and heard through the open window music made by some other family. We don't make music ourselves, in fact we define our differences by what we listen to. And what we mean by family has changed since then as we grew larger then smaller again in ways we knew would happen and yet didn't expect. Each choice is a winnowing, and sometimes at night I hear all the possibilities creak open and shut like screendoors in the wind, making an almost musical accompaniment to what I know of love and history. (from Heroes in Disguise)
(My thanks to Linda Pastan, via Writer’s Almanac.)
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Really good poem on witnessing the passing of all things. I am in my native New Hampshire this month. I have come here most every summer since I was born, though never found a way to live here full time. The house I was born in is occupied by strangers. As I drive by, I notice that the great lilac banks have gone.
Each choice is a winnowing…beautiful!