Poetry
Saturday 14 September 2024
I came home at lunch
Thursday 23 November 2023
How do you measure your achievements?
A productivity guru on LinkedIn just asked how we plan to measure our achievements in 2024.
Tuesday 29 August 2023
The Fool
Sunday 18 June 2023
I am a cat
Wednesday 27 October 2021
A drop to drink
Old OneFish
Friday 22 October 2021
Russ Everett
I knew this man named Russ.
We met online and I think we were maybe friends right away.
We didn't date, precisely. No kisses, none of that.
But connection, yes. Wasn't that what we were all looking for online?
Well,
I think of him a lot, anyway, more than a dozen years later.
So I guess we're connected.
I remember lying under a tree by Glenmore Reservoir
Staring up at the sky.
Was that the first time we met?
I think I remember him saying that I taught him something that day.
Something about staring up at the sky. I don't remember what, but maybe, simply, that it was important to take time to do that, lie under yellow-leaved trees and marvel at the blue blue sky.
He taught me.
He taught me something important, but at the time he said it, I was surrounded by less wise friends, silly little folk who believed in making others fit expectations (an impossible task, really, a foolish goal).
Russ said, "If you want him, you gotta accept."
And I think I said "but..." and "what about..." and all kinds of other silly, small, foolish things.
And Russ was a mountain. Russ knew.
If you want him, you can only take him as he is. That's how it works, said Russ.
Russ was not silly, and Russ was not small.
And Russ died way too young, but his lessons live on.
I came home at lunch
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