Fly Away

 If you could 

 

Fly Away

 

where would you land?

 

I think I'd breeze over 

 

The Netherlands

 

where 

 

tulips gather in harmony

 

 

and call on the daffodils

 

to

 

come out and play.

 

 Fly Away.

 

My photos can be seen on my Instagram page:

 

Les Dames D'Abord

 

Are You OK?

 

Just listen.

 

And if you've already heard it

 

listen again.

 

Are you OK?

 

                                             Do you have a faith

that will help you 

 

sing

"The Keep Going On Song?"

 

If you don't

 

that's OK.

 

Just keep going until

 

you find it.

 

 

Listen quietly to the softness of your

 

life

 

 

pick up the spills

 

 

 

and watch yourself change

into 

 

a new creation that 

 

you never expected you'd be.

 

 

It takes faith to even

 

hope 

it takes hope to even

 

believe

that you are loved

 

beyond your own understanding.

 

 

Keep going.

 

In April

I'm learning

how to garden again.

While listening to one of my students

read his personal memoir draft


the 

teaching experience quickly

reversed roles.

Suddenly

I was looking at 

a newly blossomed  bouquet

emerge on its own

while 

I merely stood in the background.

anita pelayo rivera les dames d'abord

In April

I'm learning once again

that 

You can't force

a tiny seed to grow

in the soils of the growing field.

You feed it.

You allow it 

the space of light

then before you know it

anita pelayo rivera les dames d'abord

rose petals 

fall from the sky.