delaware gap waterfalls

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twin fawns

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flat rock pond summer morning

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vacation forever

So what am I going to do

When I have time on my hands?

I am going to go for a walk in the woods

To listen and look and enjoy being alive.

I am going there with my sweetheart

To enjoy with her the interests we share.

We are going to go for a ride along the stream

Feeling the breeze on my skin flowing like the water.

We will have all day and the next day, too

Stopping whenever we like for as long as we like.

We see so much more when we slow down

And look with open eyes all around us.

I will walk places instead of driving

Just to feel my body move under its own power.

I will go to the produce market to get the freshest vegetables

And cook them with my favorite spices to perfection.

We will enjoy being home together

And we will plan trips to see the wonderful world.

I will take photographs to savor the images again later

And videos when the sounds and motion move me.

We will read every book in the entire library system

That teaches us about nature and science.

I will write down my thoughts when I have something to say

Making sure you know that I love you.

the mythical framework

Listening to Janaki and Roberto at the company picnic

Recounting mythology learned from childhood comic books

I pause from my rounds taking photographs

Documenting our group’s activities this week.

The picnic for me is a montage of conversations

Against the backdrop of children playing

Talking with parents with one eye on child care

Shifting their attention from me to them as needed.

Talking also with those who are not parents

Some are feeling a bit out of place here

If being a parent is not part of your life plan

With no urge to personally propagate the species.

We are all so closely related that your children are my children.

We are a large group gathered among other groups in the park

Each group doing its separate similar thing having fun

Taking time out from a workday to enjoy being together.

I think that a life plan is a kind of personal myth we live.

If your wish is to do good, making a difference

Helping people who need help

What we do together can help achieve that goal for you.

The story of our enterprise fits the mold

As a successful business startup

Created out of a good idea at the right time

Now grown to a staff of 50.

The story of our company gets retold by the sales team

As our lives are lived in a tapestry of myths

Though all of us are ordinary people.

Heroes eat soup like anyone else.

Living inside our very real lives

We are seldom aware of the mythical framework.

The pictures I take today of this moment in time

Get folded and shaped into that mythology.

Willowwood on the cusp of July

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Foothold Week

GrowNYC PS25 Gardening album

Expo 2014 Going Places album

Family Day 2014 Picnic album

stepping back

For 46 years I have worked in my life

Day after day as if it would be endless

Until the day I die.

Next week I will announce that I’m stepping back soon

Not stepping away altogether

But still a form of retirement.

All spring we have been looking at possible houses

Not to move away altogether

But still a move towards more open space.

This week we reached agreement to purchase

A house that makes us happy

A house for our future life.

That house has a room for my graduate daughter

Perfect for her if she gets her dream job teaching

Third grade 3 miles away.

Can you believe this is happening?

Today everything is good.

Today I can touch what once was fantasy.