Water and Stone

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

The Earth is showing you how it is done,

water and stone; what is hard is worn

away by the long flow of persistence.

Stay the course.

Know that tears have their purpose, and that

nothing is permanent. Have that long cry,

whether or not there is a shoulder made

available to you.

***

When I was a little girl, my best friend was

a brook. She taught me about the power of

subtle movements all heading in the

same direction.

I remember a bullfrog tadpole who had

figured this out too. I watched his tail

undulate. He created a tiny current.

***

In recent memory, I sat on a boulder next to a

mountain stream and the waters talked to me.

They said that voices are like water, they can

change things.

I started to speak more truths.

***

When it rains, we can say to ourselves:

“We are doing this. We are working together,

all of us, creating something that can become

something formidable.”

I’ve always had a special fondness for storms.

Have you ever made love during one?

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

From “Truth and Beauty” (a work in progress)

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