Get Hold of the Unsteady Life

Get Hold of the Unsteady Life

Grasses

Almost always

in my idle moments

when my mind

is free to all comers,

turns first to the fields

and their grasses.

It’s their various colors

and bending,

yes, the amber waves

of grain,

a lake of stems

and crowns

lowering in broad strides

before a soft and caring

wind.

I don’t know where

this comes from,

but it is an anchor,

a steadying,

if not locked

presence.

Peace always.

Peace.

To Ponder

            1.   Idle moments open one rhythmic way to a full-flavored

                  life.

            2.   A life may look steady from outside, but the effective

                  one, by necessity, is also one of modulation.

            3.   There are longs and shorts, waiting and leaping, highs

                  and lows—all in a well-purposed existence.

            4.   These variations—always, some of them unexpected—

                  must be brought into a state of flow.

            5.   For me, it’s the grasses—the imagining of them—that

                  often bring me back to the job before me—that of

                  modulation.

            6.   It’s a soft touch, usually the best way—to address

                  formidable challenges, for achieving sought virtue with a

                  warm heart.

            7.   What’s your modulator? Do you have one? It’s the better

                  part of wisdom. Find and claim it.

© 2013 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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