October 15, 2020. I’m almost back from a month’s retreat from home base. I’ve been physically and energetically disconnected from computers and routines. In the next week or so I’ll be catching up on blog posts from others – another sort of cushion comfort! Come end-of-October, I’ll be traveling again …
This haiku was written in response to the visual impact of sky-gazing from the mountain over Cloudcroft NM (a place we return to at least once a year). In typing it up today, I realize it speaks also to my “destination” of adjusting to losing my son. Life seems a continual journey toward an ultimate destination difficult to envision. I savor interim pauses.
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Lovely, Jazz!💜
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Thank you, Lynne.
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Your free spirit is so receptive!
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The older I get, the more receptive …
(Thanks!)
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So beautiful, Jazz. Glad you’re had some time away and unplugged.
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Thank you. Leaving, I felt “unplugged” was a wise choice! Interesting, though, how the mind keeps seeking its usual nurture, and I did miss the daily influx of poems from others! Next round, I’ll take a day or two at a time, not 3 weeks!
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I imagine this as a release of pent-up tensions – definitely a welcome thought for many of us.
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Ken, thank you for this perspective … yes, those clouds surely could absorb and dissolve tensions!
(In contrast, we also saw smokey skies coming from Arizona fires, and acres and acres of burned forest from NM fires in prior years – all tension-enhancers. Likely a poem coming about those views…)
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Wonderful photo and haiku, Jazz. I always appreciate your blog posts.
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Thank you! I always appreciate your responses!
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Great picture and haiku. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for responding.
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There is a delicateness in your words that conveys strength in vulnerability. Good to hear from, and also glad that you taking time out to just be. Hugs friend.
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VJ, thank you for those hugs!
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Welcome.
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Thoughtful haiku! Glad you are back. It takes time to reach the destination of adjustment to loss. Continued blessings on that journey – and on your “real” travels as well.
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Thank you!
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