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Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Sometimes the sky is so wide I feel I could fly way up high (as the song goes) past the clouds with the ease of a bluebird. But such imaginings are only in my mind's eye.
Though my thoughts have wings, I am less a bird and more like a curious cat slinking amid the shrubbery to see what is afoot and lurking in the sun and shadows.
I pause at the wonders of the natural world of which I am an infinitesimal part.
Unlike the ornamental peacock more or less stuck to one place, I am for the most part content to simply wander about on this whirling dot while "out there" and "in here" cosmic marvels, both seen and invisible to me, are animated and soaring. 

I am excited to know that somewhere over the rainbow not just birds but all sorts of mercurial things, now even Penelope, CAN fly in this magical moment of existence.

HOLD ONTO THE LIGHT

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Keyholes In A Painted Sky

The statue of a man waiting for the train at the foot of the White Rock Museum and former train station does not ponder the sky as I frequently do. And although it is cloudy, not starry, the horizon and recent posting of my Van Gogh experience inspired a poem for the What's Going On prompt, " ... what is unchanging, what can we count on, or what do we hope is timeless or everlasting?" For me curiosity about the true nature of existence is everlasting and resulted in these few words:
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HOLD ONTO THE LIGHT