How about the power of love?

Dear Friends,

Already the mid-middle of September and Fall is in the air, and earth, and water, and the, for me, magnificent gentling of light.

And---

My daughter got married September 8th. It was beautiful in so many ways, palpable still a week or so later, and it healed some big leftover feelings from my divorce with her father.

Here is a sentimental poem I wrote that speaks to what I felt and from what I heard many others did too.

The Day

The sun rose late this year on September 8th.

Around 5:15 p.m.

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It burbled up and flew shockingly through the open window of a building in NE Portland.

Dawn flapped its wings in delight.

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Arriving with it---

An ocean-cascading, sun-bursting

love-beaming Fest

Of such magnificence that

time stood still.

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For how long, no one knows.

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Breath continued.

Air moved.

Bodies shimmered and shook.

Smiles cracked on crusty old stories.

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Two beauties joining together.

Tying the proverbial knot with clear hearted knowing.

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Witnessed and shared with a gaggle of swans

Circling the waters and dipping their bills

Into the large swells of care, intention, and swooping joy that abounded and resounds.

Still.

​It reminded me, once again that love is the currency we need whenever we have the gumption, courage, and presence to lead with it.

Oftener and oftener. Is what I want to be.

​And listening. Listening to all that love with my whole dancing body.

How do we grow and nurture the capacity to listen with love? To live of, on, with, and in, that quality of listening?

That said. It's Fall.

For me---a time to devote attention to reflection and wonder about the big questions that don't have any one answer, and in pondering the living into and with, that often generates fresh plumped up somethings!

In the meantime I am pouring all that love and healing into this note to you. May you taste it!
​Much love,

Carol

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