🪷 Compassion as a Walking Stick

on discouragement and perseverance

I’m already on a rugged climb:
Healing Mountain’s steep and rough.
But sometimes I’m too tired to try.
These days, the going’s extra tough.

Each gust of wind just knocks me down,
where prickly self-doubt shrubs are thick.
But for today, somehow I’ve found
compassion as a walking stick.

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I took this photo a few months ago on a literal rugged climb; I was scurrying up the mountain in pursuit of our runaway Border Collie, Penny. (The smaller dogs, Winston and Papaya, came along too.)

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In the notebook

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