Tough Times
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Today's poetry post brings me this
reminder--both practical and
metaphorical. Nothing like having
ones own words show up as a
surprise!
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The Cactus
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This picture of my rangy blooming cactus servers as a reminder to me that things take time and all natures critters bloom at their own speed. Including you and me.
I can't remember where the cactus came from. Maybe a gift years back. It seems to survive long periods without much water or attention. But it's a gangly thing growing in strange directions with some branches that seem almost broken.
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Turning Points and Steppingstones
/Turning points and steppingstones
The turning points,
The steppingstones
Often arrive
As some adversity
Or opportunity—
She said that
With a depth of
Understanding
From her life—
Out of the blue
And unexpected—
Years later
She would see
The path
They had created—
But in the moment
Only confusion,
Some surprise,
Or grief, uncertainty
About what
Lay ahead.
Her words still ring:
The turning points
In life oft show themselves
As some adversity
Or unexpected opportunity.
And those to come?
Those too.
Judy Brown, May 5, 2012
-from Stepping Stones to be released Fall 2014, contact us to reserve a signed copy.
A further thought in line with the poem: A gift of a quote from a colleague from a Portuguese proverb that the French love to use--"God writes straight on crooked lines"--profoundly true in so many things that happen that may seem bad but actually turn out for the best.