Take Time for the Little Things

Take Time for the Little Things

            1.   When I least expect it, a small occasion from my life will

                  come for a re-visit.

            2.   It can come at slow times or fast; sitting still or with

                  action all around, and on the move.

            3.   All it takes for this to happen is some small sign; a word,

                  a look from somebody, a smell, or just a color.

            4.   The result for me, even if wrapped up in a compelling

                  task, is that I cannot not stop and take it in somehow.

            5.   It belongs! Why?

            6.   Because it is in a peculiar way, even though not readily

                  obvious, a coming to myself.

            7.   Take time for those little re-visits. Double-back. They

                  may tell you what’s missing.

Rhythm

Ding, dong, ding

It’s a healing sound

from our childhood.

Every few weeks

in the hot summer

afternoons when all

had grown still and

quiet except for

the buzzing of the

grasshoppers and

an occasional freight

running by on

the nearby tracks,

the little man came

through the alleys of

our neighborhood,

pushing his craft cart

with its soft call

to our mothers

in their kitchens.

I’m here, it said,

to sharpen your knives

and my grinding wheel

is ready.

Ding, dong, ding

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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