The answers are far less certain
than even last week, to all those
perennial questions or solutions
you might seek.
What do you believe, or
what do you believe in?
Come Monday, you have fewer
questions than you had last week.
For a while there are less doubts
in what you believe.
Whom do you believe in,
and who believes in you?
11/18/2024 j.g.l.
We want to know what
we don’t know, or hadn’t thought of,
or forgot.
What mattered then,
or what mattered when, shifts over time.
We notice.
Perception is what you don’t see.
Deception is what know.
You see it differently through your aloneness.
The truth behind a lie,
you question how and why.
It made sense.
Anticipation keeps us waiting
for only so long. Will it matter
if you felt it never did?
© 2021 j.g. lewis
Slow down: even with the ideas that come to quicky. Take the time to acknowledge the feelings that arrive, as they arrive.
Write it down. How else will you remember what you were thinking?
Print neatly. You hardly understand the thoughts at the time, why make it more difficult to comprehend weeks or years from now?
Follow your own logic; only you need to truly make sense of what is happening, or all that has happened.
Pay attention to the lessons of the past. Be mindful that not all are worth repeating.
Clarity. Make corrections as you go. Flaws become more difficult to correct the longer you live with them.
11/14/2024 j.g.l.
I'm like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.
Making our way to the ballot box, we, above all, cast a vote because of our love of this country. If we don’t believe in the process, we believe in the potential.
We show up.
We get the vote out.
We entrust our elected representatives to not only do their best to preserve and protect our way of life, but increase and expand the benefits of living in a nation with such possibility.
We remain hopeful something will get done and someone will get it right.
Often we are disappointed.
Elected officials seem to forget the election is about the people and not about the party. We live in a democracy where each vote is a voice, but politicians often spend so much time shouting that they cannot hear what the voters are saying.
Still we show up.
Still, we believe in potential.
Today is Election Day. Today your voice matters and your vote counts.
Today is not a day for doing what you have always done, nor is it a day for voting strategically. Most of all, it is not a day to feel affected by the fear and misfortune broadcast by one politician or another.
Today is a day to think positive. Today is a day to think about possibility.
Today is a day to use your voice and vote with your conscience.
Today is about the foreseeable future of our country. Today matters.
Don’t vote with the crowd, vote with your heart.
Vote love.
10/2/2019 j.g.l.
I’m like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.