Grief is a burden
but also a friend—
It is not grief that
wounds your heart
but it is grief that
heals your heart.
Calm in a cup
Tea is a magical calming elixir — like, as if coffee had a therapist.
Junk food curse
Why throw trash into the treasure-house of your body?
Brotherlove
There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.
Mind own secrets
Frustration is nothing more than letting your own mind bully you.
Inscribed
graves are not limited
to the cemetery —
they lurk in our minds,
and buried in our hearts
lie garlanded stones
marking loved ones lost
The graceful and beauteous
Flowers rewrite soil, rain, and sunshine into petal’d poetry.
Spring awake
earth dreams of spring
in her winter slumbers
she dozes on and off —
then trembles wide awake
a silent green earthquake
Wintermind
The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.
P.S. Thanks so much to everyone who let me know about USA Today and King Features Syndicate using this quote for their “Cryptoquote” on December 3rd. That’s pretty cool! They actually left out a small portion and quoted it as “The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.” —tg, 2022
The real
If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort.
Speaking of spring
Spring translates earth’s happiness into colorful flowers.
Wilted
The past falls away in wilted petals,
New things will come, probably nettles.
Symbiotic
Death is not warden of life, not thief, nor enemy — but Life’s most equal partner.