A spark on the wind

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B l u e   T h u n d e r

Trump International Hotel and Tower

Chicago, Illinois

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Life is the only way
to get covered in leaves,
catch your breath on sand,
rise on wings;

to be a dog,
or stroke its warm fur;

to tell pain
from everything it’s not;

to squeeze inside events,
dawdle in views,
to seek the least of all possible mistakes;

An extraordinary chance
to remember for a moment
a conversation held with the lamp switched off;

and if only once
to stumble on a stone,
end up soaked in one downpour or another,

mislay your keys in the grass;
and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes;

and to keep on not knowing
something important

= Wislawa Szymborska =

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Happy Thursday

So this is the world

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I ' l l   F l y   A w a y

Broad River Trestle

Peak, South Carolina

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Sometimes in late summer I won't touch anything, not

the flowers, not the blackberries

brimming in the thickets; I won't drink

from the pond; I won't name the birds or the trees;

I won't whisper my own name.

One morning

the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident,

and didn't see me -- and I thought:

so this is the world.

I'm not in it.

It is beautiful.

= Mary Oliver =

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Happy Wednesday :: Happy July