Not spring, not yet,
not the type of cold you can’t forget.
Wake and wonder how we slept,
what has been done, what is still left?
Plans will change, uncertainty,
the plans you made unknowingly.
Emotions always come into play,
when rain soaks down,
we feel the grey.
The time between night or day;
a further chance, another way.
© 2020 j.g. lewis
It is not just another day, it’s an extra day; the calendar’s chance to make up for time lost over past years.
Today is an opportunity, perhaps even a blessing.
Lately we have been fortunate to experience a few additional minutes of daylight in the season where we really need it. Today we get a few more hours of sunshine (weather permitting). We are allowed an extra cup of coffee (treat yourself to a special brew), more time with loved ones, or an occasion to catch up on time lost (just like the calendar).
Today is a good day for finding the balance that may have eluded you and realign your internal clock.
There is more time to express yourself, time you don’t allow yourself often enough. It’s not just a few extra hours it is an entire day!
Enjoy the fortuitousness of it all.
It matters as much as you want it to.
What will you do with this extra day?
j.g.l.
Very early this morning, I couldn’t help but glance westward to the brilliant full moon hovering above the CN tower and office buildings of downtown Toronto. The lights inside the sky-high structures not nearly as bright as Luna, but nonetheless picturesque.
It was a beautiful scene capturing the city I live in and the celestial delight that has guided me for as long as I remember.
And, I without my camera.
Pre-coffee, I was not awake enough, or wise enough, to reach into my pocket and at least snap a few shots with my mobile device. I didn’t think, at the time, my simple phone would do the Moon any justice. I instead held the scene in my head.
While there is a certain convenience to the trusty mobile device, I prefer to use my camera where I have a greater selection of focal lengths and can more artistically control the light entering the lens.
The camera, I feel, gives me the control I need. Even in the darkness.
It is all about control.
I have spent a lifetime learning the intricacies and settings of a camera and its lenses, both digitally and in the more traditional film format. A true camera allows me to make photographs and not simply take snapshots. I like to control and compose as I go through this life. My camera allows me to do that, when I have it with me.
I later searched the digital files of my computer to find one photo or anther of the Full Moon. I have many times captured both the subject and its essence, but I did not this morning.
I will however remember this morning’s Moon.
And I will regret not being prepared enough, or aware enough, to capture what was before me. I did not have the control I wanted.
02/26/2026 j.g.l.
When do you decide to make a change?
Are there circumstances that force you to rearrange the way you run your life?
Health concerns, living arrangements, sudden interests, or new people and possibilities.
Change is not always organic.
Sometimes we have to fight with old habits and patterns, while other times change just happens (good or bad). We still need to rethink what is important.
How do you decide, and where do you begin?
The answers can be found, only, within.
© 2019 j.g. lewis
Words intentionally scribbled in an old notebook, a quote from someone or somewhere. that often comes to mind.
‘Do what is right, not what is easy.’
Many people have said it (or variations of such), so attributing the inspirational words to somebody specific is more difficult to understand than the moral itself.
A powerful thought from someone who probably thinks more than me (and I do a lot). It is not easy, and sometimes my thoughts are not right, but I try to own them.
02/23/2024 j.g.l.