Daily Reminder # 45

one of my birthday lamps

It's a little cooler tonight - finally, but it has been a long, long, hot week. Going to take it easy on myself this evening and just post a couple of poems.

I splurged for my birthday and bought myself two Tibetan Salt lamps ($23/each at Amazon.com). A friend of mine got some about a year ago and I've been pining for one and then Quilly (who is yet again giving cool things away) wrote about them on her blog and I got to pining even more... It took me almost two months (not counting the year of pining) to give myself permission to spend the money, but I'm glad I did. I think they are beautiful. Besides creating an air of calm, they are supposed to assist with allergies and sinus issues, so I'm hoping they will keep Tara Grace away from the vet and me spared a good deal of projectile snot. Lord, it's a good thing she's so sweet.

One other thing before I actually do what I said and just post two poems... I think I saw a bee. I'm not sure. But I think so. That was a birthday gift from the Universe.

Anyway... a poem....

WAITING FOR THE UNICORN

Always in my mind

Rides the dream

Silver light and darkness

Diana in the moonlight

Stalking shadows

Bow and arrow poised

Waiting for Apollo

To drop burning from the sky

Revealing unseen beasts

And beauties

Waiting

Eternally waiting

For the arrow to fly

And waiting too

For the unicorn.

- Katherine E. Rabenau

THE DREAM

Some distant dream

Nags at my mind

Calls angrily

Move on

Awake and run

Begone to some far mystic land

Where poets run on moonlight sand

And waking dreamers

Sing their songs aloud

Run wild

Let go of tepid things

And face the wind.

- Katherine E. Rabenau

Some things I'm grateful for today:

• Tibetan salt lamps
• beauty
• Harry Potter
• Craig Ferguson (reading his biography)
• cooling air and pink clouds
• rain
• flowers
• bees

Have a Wonderful Day!