The Year is Complete!

Please feel free to look back through the 365 days of 2010 sunrises, but "a year of getting up to meet the day" is officially completed. There will be no more new posts.

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Thank you so much for visiting.
A one year blog project in which I share a process of transitions: emptying of the nest, reacquainting with my rusty intellect, plowing onward with my first full length book, entering the second half of my first century, and generally reflecting on life.

(see Dec. 29th, 2009 entry for further explanation)

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving poem

sunrise:  6:45



A happy day of thanks to all 
for everything that's good:
for things that fly and swim and crawl, 
for soil and stone and wood;

for water in its every form 
without which all would die,
likewise for daylight from the warm
bright sun that fills the sky.

Give thanks for yellow, red and blue
and all the color wheel,
for ears to hear and eyes to view, 
for taste and smell and feel;

for work that's meaningful to do
with hands or heart or mind, 
for every loving act that grew 
from acts equally kind.

Let's even give a nod of thanks
to life's sad sister death.
Without that sister's painful pranks
there'd be no more new breath.

For every chance we find to sit 
with even one companion
and share some food and talk a bit
and make the meal a grand one,

give thanks to care and thanks to share
a moment with a friend.
The greatest thing is not so rare:
It's love, that's all.  The end.


Robin Clifford Wood
November 25, 2010

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