In The Face Of Disaster

People and places evoke sweet, sometimes bittersweet recollections. The poem is to my Ukrainian Canadian mom who long ago passed away. Her memory was made more poignant recently by the disaster that struck her homeland. The Poets and Storytellers prompt "in the face of disaster" got me thinking that a key to winning a fight you know is right is the belief that justice overcomes. When the battle is darkest, support of all sorts are like "teddy bears" amid chaos. Alongside bullets and blankets, some send cash, if they've any to spare, or prayers through time and space and light candles. 

We are now into the second year of this current catastrophic struggle where many have died. However, the second candle, unrelated to Ukraine, is for a writer I just now discovered at dVerse Poets has passed away and whom I want to acknowledge. 

     

Meanwhile, in my world, Frosty seemed a bit weary of the on again off again snow.

Crescent Beach beckoned as I've not taken walks there for a while. I'm both excited and hesitant about returning to the place where I fell. Until I do, I have hundreds of old photos to look at. Here's one at high tide taken I think near this time of year.

Explore more at Poets and Storytellers United, SKYWATCH and Shadow Shot Sunday. 

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The Farthest Journey

The word "escape" suddenly came to mind when reading the Poets and Storytellers United prompt: What would you say to bear witness to these times?

The urgent needs of the planet are overlooked at our peril due to squabbling and wars. So as a few try to resolve issues, plans to flee from what we wrought hover in infancy.

Crescent Beach Pier

To humankind, the galaxy, out of curiosity and necessity, is a mystery to unravel, explore and master. I'd like to think we will go on in some unknowable fashion in the far distant future and exist as peace-loving specks of light in a cosmic sea. Until then, we could transcend our differences with global clarity of purpose. "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools," said Martin Luther King Jr., perhaps knowing that the farthest journey is sometimes from one heart to the other.

Explore more at Skywatch, Poets and Storytellers United and Shadow Shot Sunday.

Check out my sites: Postcards from Penelope Puddle and Musings of A Puddlist In B.C.

Because the state of our planet is the most pressing issue of our time, link up and learn about the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report.

HOLD ONTO THE LIGHT