Sister Love, New Year Poems, Webmaster (NOT!)

Happy New Year - I am having a great holiday season and wish you one as well!
My big Sis Gretchen  - an international ballet star - turned 50 on 12-27-2011 - so you will get her poems first.

I have been prolific today - So grab a Coffee - or Tea! Send back your radiant love, and I will catch it off the breeze!

Gretchen, Karla, Grace, Kirby

My Sister

Joy & Power entwined with love envelop you when she enters

Her energy & fitness are palpable

She is the dancer….and the music

There is no separation

Her heart, spirit & body are always on center stage

She is busy creating, designing, choreographing

All the while she is able to encourage, laugh and shine her light 

on all who are blessed to know her

She is my sister, Gretchen!

Gretchen, Kirby, Karla

Karla, Gretchen

Karla top left; Gretchen, Our Dancer, seated right of teacher

Our Dancer, Gretchen

A joyful enthusiastic participant in all she does

A fiery spirit that pierces you with intensity

A protective & gentle mother, lover, wife

A spitfire of movement and grace

A generous heart that shares all

A positive sister & friend

A teacher of dance & life

A rich complex soul

Our Dancer,

Gretchen!

1-1-2012

New Day-New Year- New Decade …..for me

2012 brings my 5^th decade – quite a Surprise to me

When I say it out loud; in my mosquito net, to myself

So what is this year to bring? What does it herald?

None of us ever knows –So, I am resolved to be joyful and open

Not to fear or fret – it has taken me 50 years to learn this lesson

What comes, will come; regardless of my concerns and worries

So I have sent my worries a’ packing!

I live in the present – for today

Placing my future in my faith in God, in the universe, in the goodness of my fellow time travelers

I wish peace, happiness, and freedom from suffering to all earths creatures this Year

What a gift to have the perspective from a different continent

The light is clearer from here.

Dolly 

The New Year is here – I shared it with Dolly Parton. Africa never ceases to surprise me.

Sitting alone – waiting for New Year’s eve to pass

as I am alone, frequently, with myself, my best friend.

Dolly began singing on a nearby breeze. REALLY – wafting across the fields to me.

Dolly – from Nashville – Tennessee – USA from 20 years ago – was singing in Uganda

And no one felt the magnitude of it but me

It made my eyes well up with longing for home. 

I knew all the words.

She will always love me – in her coat of many colors – from nine to five!

REALLY an entire Dolly Album brought me home for almost an hour

So after all it is a happy New Year for me!

African Safari                  

I am on an African Safari – for 27 months – it will change me forever

I pray, for the better – but there are no guarantees

Safari means Journey – for me, a walk about – a vision quest

A chance to connect, To Myself – To Others – To the Universe

I feel it working – I think

I try to think less and feel more

I feel like an observer

Here, but disconnected

Awaiting the outcome

Unknown

No hints, no cheat sheets

I might as well enjoy the ride

and wait for the results with everyone else

Tree Hugger     (Shout out to my Bro Bar-B-Q on this one!)                                                                                                            

So be it – you are a tree hugger

Yep – you love trees

You feel them – Alive, Breathing, Strong, Peaceful

They stand their ground

They watch over you …and all who pass

And you are so grateful for their unbending love

You are in awe of their steadfast presence

Their commitment to their place

Their slow and steady personal growth

As Protector and Guardian

They provide shelter, shade, safety ...to so many

You relish their diversity – rough, smooth, tall, dwarf, bushy, spear-shaped

Large leafed, needle leafed, fragrant, sticky – all magnificent

Of course you cannot help

But hug trees

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...With Optimism for the coming year - Karla