Hindsight

Who was your most influential teacher? Why?

A good education is like a harvest of plenty:

Many hands have to help in the planting. Many moons have to pass in the growing.

And many days are spent taking in the harvest, one life lesson at a time.

It is all a constant, communal effort.

And yet.

You won’t know just how much you needed that harvest until the Winter of Discontent arrives.

For then you see its necessity: The storms may rage, the snows and ice may isolate, but you are not alone and do indeed have plenty.

#education

Curse Breaker

What experiences in life helped you grow the most?

They say “Healing Journey”

They mean finding all manner of skeletons in all manner of closets and encountering demons in human disguise.

The point is knowing when to fight back and when to walk away.

#healing

1.01

I am growing my garden

Tomatoes, potatoes
Carrots and peas
Pumpkins and squash
An orange tree

Lemons and roses
Flowers for bees
And apples in the orchard

I am growing my garden 

Tending and touching
Digging and cutting
Laying out straw
Hoping the slugs don’t eat it all

I am growing my garden

Now the world broke apart
and is ready to fall.

© 2025 threegoodwords

once outside

Bumblebees
tumbling about

drunk on nectar

dropping from blossom to bud
crashing into bees and walls
zigzagging

into people

spring to summer

one great party
from dawn to dusk

Remember

© 2017, 2020 threegoodwords

moments, many

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to be thankful
is to be mindful
of those moments, many
where one is centered, whole

a heartbeat, two
a minute, an hour, a day
where there’s more
than the day-to-day
9-to-5
Mo.-Fri. plus overtime

where, like music
the world opens wide
to heartbeats of peace

where you can exhale and just
be.

a moment of
genuine
thanks giving.

© 2015 threegoodwords

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