The bigger picture
is not as bad as you think:
a rainbow promise.

What protects life, and
what constrains it? Boundaries:
finding the limits.

In the garden plot
you’ve been given, revealing
balance, harmony.

“So long as the earth
endures, … summer, winter, day
and night shall not cease.”
Genesis 8:22

Within the limits
of darkness, sanctuary:
celebrating light.

Seed in container:
bursting with life, ready to
connect with the earth.

After a winter
groping blind in the cold ground,
consider the fruit.

Reb Zalman, Baba,
loving within harmony:
oneness of being.

A moment within
eternity: harmony
within harmony.

Enveloped in the
ebbs and flows of times, seasons,
years: still enduring.

Blessed are You Lord
of All, spreading forth the land
upon the waters.

Beauty still, beauty
traveling, uniting in
their moment: flight fuel.

May 10

After the rains have
washed the sky way down to the
roots: earth blossoming.

May 9

Consider the pace
of love in the enduring
earth arms that hold us.

Moon Tree
The sun is coming.
No amount of desire to keep you in my vision
will prevent you from slipping away into the morning sky.
Maybe the moon tree will snag you so you won’t leave.

“There are two kinds of people,”
said the Rebbe.
“Sun people only know what their eyes can see.
Moon people also know, and see, what their eyes cannot see.”

I know, in spite of what my eyes tell me,
that there aren’t enough branches
in the moon tree to snag you.
I also know, in spite of what my eyes tell me,
that you’re not going anywhere.

Mid-journey: timeless
within the timeless, until
the hour of rebirth.