wisdom. {reverb10 – day 10}
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What was the wisest decision you made this year, and how
did it play out?
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I ran it out.
I flew.
I became twice my son’s age.
I was grateful.
I danced.
I got lost in the crowd.
I watched life through a smile and a curtain.
I hoped.
I celebrated.
I dug down deep and found a word.
I fell and got back up.
I watched shadows dance across the floor.
I wrestled my to-do list, and I won.
I stared out of windows late at night.
I stood in the dark and listened for sunrise.
I forgave.
I wore purple rain boots that made me happy.
I wrote.
I sat there and looked pretty.
I asked questions, the right ones, and the wrong ones.
I stood on the outside looking in.
I sat beneath a windmill and I cried.
I listened.
I enjoyed a breeze of silence.
I took one more step.
I made pickles.
I became a crazy cat lady.
I drew a heart using the moon as my pencil.
I loved.
I worried.
I began.
I let my hair blow wildly in the wind.
I ran six miles on a 90 degree day,
bought a dip top ice cream cone and
let it drip down my arms as I ate it.
I sat on the floor and I wept.
I pulled weeds.
I was a weed.
I ate chocolate.
I watched minutes tick away on the clock.
I saw a lifetime of fabulous views.
I wore rose colored glasses.
I stole hours of quiet and held them in
until they came back out as smiles.
I giggled.
I reached for the sky.
In other words,
I lived.
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These are all ideas or excerpts taken from my posts this past year.
December 10th, 2010 at 10:40 am
I love this entry! I have a love for poetry and this was just beautiful and even more beautiful when I read that they were snippets from previous posts. Amazing.
December 10th, 2010 at 10:42 am
Simply enchanting and a wise decision indeed! Thanks for sharing!
December 10th, 2010 at 10:44 am
Love this microcosm of your life. You certainly did live!
December 10th, 2010 at 10:44 am
What an incredibly brilliant creative idea – taking the ideas from posts you made last year! And what a wild thought — that you were creating this poem all year. Love this!
December 10th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Lovely. 🙂 I’ve really been enjoying your reverb 10 posts. Simply lovely.
December 10th, 2010 at 10:52 am
yes. you did. taking that one more step everyday. and i am ever so grateful that you do, and that you did. xoxo
December 10th, 2010 at 11:50 am
Our blogs are wonderful captures of our lives!
December 10th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Once again, a magical creation. I especially love “I drew a heart using the moon as my pencil” &, of course, those rainboots!! *swoon*
December 10th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Lovely post, containing much wisdom indeed! Thank you for sharing it! 🙂
December 10th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
i love your reverb posts! this poem, free flow of words is beautiful.. moved me to tears.. thank you!
December 10th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I love how often your posts make me say Wow. Thank you. Yes! The wisdom is there in the daily living. I see that here.
December 10th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Loving this post . . . sounds like a life well lived.
December 10th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
I recognized many of those ‘wise’ moments. You are a light in my horizon – for one day, I too shall live.
December 10th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
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December 10th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
this is the mighty list of a wise, wise woman (who also happens to be my friend, i’m delighted to say!) lovely. powerful. inspiring. love.
December 10th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Absolutely delicious. I could melt into this post.
December 10th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
You were life. As you are. Well done.
December 10th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
brilliant images of living life to the fullest. lovely!
December 10th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
and our lives are better because of it 🙂
December 10th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
I loved each line of this the whole way through, and then when I got to the end, it got even better. How cool that one line from different points of your year all came together to form a coherent whole, like a kalidoscope.
December 11th, 2010 at 12:24 am
Wow. This is freakin’ beautiful. Amazing. I feel like going outside right now and running around and looking up at the stars and rolling around in the grass and breathing in the cold air.
But it’s REALLY cold out there. And dark. And late. So maybe I just might go to bed, but still, this post/poem of yours was very inspiring. Thanks for such a wonderful vibe to end the night on and to fall asleep to.
December 11th, 2010 at 10:23 am
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December 11th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Loved your vision into your life. We are all just pieces of dichotomy.
December 14th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Thank you. Thank you so much. This is breathtakingly wondrous and beautiful, and honestly it brought tears to my eyes because I have been struggling with this Reverb prompt so much… and I am remembering the posts where many of these things came from, recognizing some of the same things that I have done through the year, and finally *finally* knowing that I have not made only bad decisions. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
December 16th, 2010 at 4:39 am
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