for
your
poetry of life;
you
by
your
being share the beauty of the world,
its quiets, and its possibilities with those around
you
how
you
bring attention and appreciation to the world!
you
are such a warmth, an insight, an encouragement, an inspiration:
your
curiosity and
your
care; through how
you
live
you
make intent and a life of the mind seem possible
your
bold rigorous and laughing appreciation of ideas!
you
inspire me to do things the right way, someday
your
awe of both the world as it is, and of how it and its ideas might be
your
boisterous discernment,
your
caring humor
your
passion for the world & what it could be
your
rumbles and
your
flashes 🌩️,
sunshine 🌅 and
your whispers 🌬️
your
slow and fast attentions,
which make the world more beautiful in its being seen
your
curiosity, careful and sharp, the slow sugars of
your
enthusiastic roasts,
your
flights of fancy;
you
inspire me towards thought and recklessness both
your
heartfulness,
your
thoughtfulness,
your
striving to make the world more beautiful
your
earnesty,
your
willingness to go thin-skinned and find out what
you'll
make of
yourself,
the jazz
you
make of life
your
eye,
your
laugh, the way
you
learn and the way
you
apply yourself to the world
your
fierceness and
your
care;
you
are a center of craft and of hope
your
playfulness with knowledge,
your
dissatisfaction with easy answers
your perceptiveness,
fierce warmth,
sly questions
your bright smile and making hard decisions look easy
your listening and
your
wink,
your
systems and their mischief
your craft and
your
improvisations,
your
words and their pauses
your enthusiasm and cheer; for the way that by continuing
you
change
your
surroundings
your multiplicities and foci,
your
keenness and
your
cozy
by
your
example
you inspire me to feel deeply into the unknown,
to pursue the meaning of the work of care
in a verdant crumbling world
for
your
relaxations (some with
your
eyebrow raised, some mine), and
your
collaborative preparations
your
sparkles and
your
quiets,
your
loose and woven ends
your
loving hope; being
your
comrade is joyous
the way
you
try to ever consider both the principles and the people
your
extra,
your
passion for trying,
your
laughter at any claims that better isn't possible
your
tenderness and wit,
your
playful fantastics,
your
projects and firmly gentle life
your
careful eye and laughing craft,
your
seriousness in finding a forwards
your
rambunctious garden of self,
your
kudzu in its hunger and
chrysanthemums in their quiet uproariousness
you
inspire me always to look more carefully and smell more deeply,
to
thumb-press my own seeds and
let them escape their planters.