Daily Reminder # 67

Good things do happen.

Two days in a row, hate has been defeated by love. The anti-gay marriage provision in California has been declared unconstitutional by a judge. It will have to move further through the court system and to the Supreme Court before it hopefully becomes true law of the land, but it is a sign of hope that the bad guys don't always win. Maybe this is a sign that the pendulum of hate has peaked and is beginning to lose its momentum. I hope so.

Just a couple of poems tonight, I think. Scrolling back to make sure I hadn't posted them already, I noticed that despite efforts not to repeat myself, I have posted a couple of poems more than once. My apologies for that. Don't think I've done this one since I started the daily reminders. If I have I apologize again. Hope this doesn't mean I'm getting senile. That would not be good. It isn't the plan. "The Plan" is to die in my sleep, 15 or 20 years from now with all my mental faculties in tact.

To spread out

Unfold

As the eagle expands his wings

Releasing his weight into the wind

Hanging still on the air

Above rough mountains

To echo

Like wind

Through mountain canyons

Hum among tall trees

To radiate the stillness of a star's

too-distant motion

Then hang beneath the light

In waiting for another darkness

To mingle with the earth

And send deep roots within

All of this

Would still not be enough to set me free.

- Katherine E. Rabenau

EAGLE

Such flight must surely be magnificent

Must loose the soul to higher worlds

It is too beautiful to be merely practical

Look how he dances, glides and swoops

Within the endless depth of sky

So certain of his power

So easy on the wind

Look how the heavens carry him about

Above the rugged spires of a dying world.

- Katherine E. Rabenau

Some things I'm grateful for today:

• birds
• fans
• vitacost.com
• the overturning of Prop 8
• friends and family
• my microwave oven

May Your Hopes and Dreams Take Flight

and May Your Day Be Rich in Beauty