Are you sharing your story?
My Friend, you never know
Where your story will prompt
Someone’s reaching bigger.
What group connection perks up your life?
You know the feeling.
Interactions that make you
Think more clearly,
Have sense of possibility.
How do you know you are
Showing up “Loud and Proud?”*
I have “cool” new bike shirt,
High-viz orange-red, SPF 50.
Grey days are hard for me,
Damping down my optimism.
Canceling out thoughts of
Positive action.
When I was ten years old,
I dashed outside New Year’s morning,
Filled with wonder that we had a NEW time.
I shouted up to the sky,
“This time is new!
It’s called 1949!”