i celebrate
the new story
a better story
the powerful gesture of carrying a reusable mug
riding bicycles and
not owning what we don’t need
local book stores
with paper books
small cafés
with ceramic mugs
telling our children the truth, always, even when it’s difficult
unseen acts of integrity
light rail
dark skies
the painting of berthe morisot, the calligraphy of thích nhất hạnh, the dance of misty copeland, the tao of lao tzu
eating slowly while sitting down
sitting down
standing up
the innate human capacity to live in tune with elders:
the bowhead whale
the tortoise
elkhorn coral
greenland sharks
foregoing the dominance and
choosing instead to bow to
the quahog and its
deep down diggable ways.