I am thinking of my great-grandson Sal.
He is in a position to leap in his life. What can I say to him that I want him to remember?
I could start with this:
“How did this happen?
This incredible feeling/thinking/sensing/moving/joyous/painful/
doubting/wondering life —- what keeps it upright even now,
right now in this unrepeatable moment
that is already going, gone? No answer to that,
merely the gasp of the breath as it moves in and out,
and the pleasure of knowing
that we are here and not elsewhere.
Better to taste it now, then, this life
that we have,
than to defer it to some future that may never come —–
however imperfect it may seem to us in passing. For,
as Leonard Cohen says in one of his songs,
— there is a crack, a crack in everything
that’s how the light gets in.”
…………..ROGER HOUSDEN, from his book, “Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again & Again’.
I have seen that light in Sal, and the cracks through which seep Sal’s unique perception and way of expressing what he sees.
from my heart to yours,
Mimi/Mom/Toni/Antoinette