How do we choose to travel?
What is reliable in the rain?
What is our ultimate destination,
for this time, this journey, or
this day?
We move at the speed of life.
Depending on traffic, others
may chose to follow your path,
but not your direction.
© 2021 j.g. lewis
A little cold, little wet,
a little tired and yet
I am here. Still,
full of wonder.
The morning chill leaves
little to the imagination
and much less
to hope for.
Expected, perhaps, as it
always is, this time, this
season is only what
we ask of it.
11/21/2024 j.g.l.
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.
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.
Negative notions surround us.
In our daily news and social media mayhem we are inundated with disaster and dreadful happenings, random harmful thoughts and contemptuous conspiracy theories. The rising cost of living, deceitful dialogue, extraneous evils, and excessive violence takes over our mindset.
In all that is going on in this world, we seem reluctant to speak positively about all the good things that go on in our lives.
We are, mostly, what we feel, and we need to feel better individually and collectively.
This, as summer approaches our doorstep, is an opportunity to alter your thought patterns.
Take account of all the wonderful things that happened yesterday, or last week. Look closely between all the complaints and confusion that you have encountered lately, and you are sure to find something that makes you proud, or makes you smile and feel good (we need more of that).
Break the habit; think good thoughts.
Celebrate small personal advances, speak kindly to yourself (and others). There is no need to be boastful of the certain accomplishments or slight gains you have made.
Look past the slight inconveniences and subtle heartaches that have compounded over time. Put aside your problems, mindful that ignoring issues that plague you will not make them go away.
Do this daily.
Take a moment here and now to reflect, even meditate, on all that makes you happy.
There you will find joy, even if only for those precious few moments.
I am certain we will all feel the difference.
06/02/2024 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.