Help!

Listening to the Old Beatles tune today..."Help." It occured to me...what a tremendous insight that song had into what happens to us as we move into the final third of our lives...which are filled with tradoffs. While we can't "do it all" anymore, the tenderness we experience as our spouses, kids, and friends "stand in the gaps" is profound. Life is good.

Seasons come...

Sitting on the front porch as dusk begins 
to settle over the neighborhood, 
watching Lily entertain herself in the front yard. 
Blooms everwhere I look, pink..yellow..white..red..burgandy. 
Listening to the water cascade from the fountain 
and down into the bowl...
a dragon fly buzzes by. Spring.