Gratitude Journal Part 2

I’m grateful for endings

that merge into new beginnings,

karmic cycles and their painful lessons

and excruciating yearly rituals that often end

in transformations.

 

I’m grateful for long late-night horizontal conversations

tiny loving gestures

unity

and the Universe announcing her timing

loud and clear.

 

For experience.

 

For strength and resilience

reflected

in the mirror.

 

For friends and family who linger

around the corner

ready to reemerge

when you call them.

 

For cold winter winds that bring loss

and change

and propel us on.

 

For memories that needn’t be analyzed;

they’re simply gifts to cherish and remember.

 

The winter winds push us

on through the frigid night

into spring.

Back in Colombia

Back in Colombia

The first thing I notice about Bogotá, when descending the rickety stairs of the airplane, is the smell: a strange mixture of damp clay, lush green vegetation and diesel smoke.  The altitude provides a lightheaded feeling of well-being and forceful palpitations of your abdominal aorta begin somewhere between your sternum and navel.

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