Hello again + Compassion to You
Hello again, after several months in which my river was rushing too fast to allow me time and mindspace for posting----or much else beyond the essentials of kids, work, home, and self-care. Winter was particularly difficult, with ongoing colds/sicknesses, the loss of two beloved elderly pets, and just the dreariness of gray skies and cold weather. But the return of spring and more sunlight has returned to me some extra energy, so I’m trying again to get back in the flow of posting here. I still have a bunch of little poems I’d like to post, plus “kid moments,” and I’m hoping to post some of my songs eventually, too.
I’m also newly trying out Instagram, so you can meet up with me there if you want. For years I avoided all social media because it felt too overwhelming and scary for various reasons, but in the meantime all the learning and growing I’ve been doing has given me the confidence to trust that I can take care of myself. And as I’ve been poking about Instagram, I’ve realized how much goodness is out there—everything from people sharing honestly about their journeys of inner healing to hilarious animal videos—and I want to be a part of that! Plus, it does seem like a truly ingenious way to keep in touch with the friends that I’ve unintentionally lost touch with. (If you are one of those friends and are reading this, know that I feel sorrow about that and have nothing but love in my heart for you!)
Meanwhile, I still keep a practice of making at least a little time each day for my writing projects—as basic self-care/mental health care—and I’ve written a kids’ chapter book that I’m polishing and have started on a middle grade novel that I’m loving.
Compassion to You
This is a very simple little poem that partly comes out of my own difficult days but also, even more, comes out of my witnessing the suffering of others, around me and around the world. So if you read this and feel in need of compassion, I claim that these words are for YOU.
Life is hard but you go on
through struggles and sorrows,
pains and rains.
I see you and I want to say:
compassion to you
compassion to you
and mercies too----
may sun break through.