Pausing

When pausing
we contemplate what is present in the present,
review what was present in the past,
prepare ourselves for a probable future,
and plan possible presents for hereafter.

Invitations to pause
for reflection and response
via conversation and application

  • Questions about the what, who,
    when, where, and how of this life,
    as nudges for your queries

  • Alphabetized ideas and proposals
    about this and that, to be revised
    by your experiences and reflections

  • Calls to gratitude, praise, trust in goodness, to ask for what’s needed
    to play our part with goodness

  • Stanzas of 5/7/5 syllables in 3 verses
    with perspectives on the elemental, embodied, ethereal, essential

  • Perspectives on the elemental,
    embodied, ethereal, essential
    through free verse, rhythm, rhyme

  • Sketches of portraits of notable and memorable beings, painted with letters arranged in paragraphs

  • Brief scenes
    featuring ordinary and extraordinary
    witnessed and imagined
    situations

  • Stories
    for every age,
    offering lessons
    in the form of allegory

  • Exercises for the integration of experiences via investigation,
    instrumentation, introspection,
    inspiration and intention

Here we are
and there we go,
with our
gloves stuffed with probings,
coats lined with ponderings,
shoes soled with prayers,
bowls filled with poems,
tiles glazed with portraits,
hearths warmed with passages,
cells charged with parables,
wheels fueled with projects.
Along the way, we pause.

All is to be appraised, adopted, adapted, adjusted, and applied as applicable and appropriate.