Sunshine Elixir

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Hands poised at the keyboard, I search for the simple.

What few words can convey something worth saying?

This morning I don’t feel like an artful dance to weave a way into the telling. I want potency in a small dosage.

And as I seek and come short, the Bohemian sounds, as if on cue. From his early morning shower, where he must be peering out that little rectangle window looking East, he calls his line.

“Sunrise…”

Ah, of course. I step out to soak in rising light.

Sunshine elixir in a single drop.

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Wrapping Up

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Jeb discovers a katydid trapped in a spider’s lair, just outside our front window. One of these leaf-winged insects made its way on to the Archives recently, with a posted titled “A New Leaf“.

We are turning over our own proverbial new leaf, as we prepare to move July 1.

The Bohemian wants to leave things better than we found them, so even though he’ll no longer be reaping the fruits of his labor, he spends Sunday afternoon turning over a garden bed and removing weeds. He lays cardboard at the bottom and replenishes with fresh soil. He’ll be planting easy-care, edible ground covers like mint and marjoram.

I come outside to soak in the harvest. The last one for us from this garden.

I’m sorry for the katydid, but I guess this is part of the life cycle. Seed and harvest, new and old, life and death.

The one ever-present constant, change.

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