Just Yesterday
Earth Week Reflection
It was just yesterday.
We were together walking in Rock Creek Park…
and we were together figuring out how to ride a bike.
Just yesterday I flew on a plane and rode in a bus to get home.
Untethered. Grounded.1
And today, a flying plastic shadow…
…and garbage along the road.2
Holding the ‘all of it’ challenges.
I am untethered and grounded, again.
Then, I remember, Just Yesterday…
the magic of a blue river and sky,
and the wonder of rocks, worn by water, covered in water.
And there I was, Just Yesterday, feeling
a river flow against my shins,
sand massaging my bare feet,
and wonder at being here, today.
What do you smell, hear and see beyond your screen at this moment?
Here today. A memory tomorrow.
With gratitude for you being you,
Lilly being Lilly…and compost being compost.
Lyn
Parenting is filled with constant joy…and sadness. Joy at what is…and at what was…and maybe not so much sadness, as a longing for what was…to savor it just a bit more…because time passes faster and faster…and there is the worry, for the future, which also contains sadness. Holding all those emotions at once can be unsettling, but it’s all real and it’s just how it seems to be…I am grateful for photography for offering one way to express the all of it.
All this discarded garbage on the sides of roads, even here in Vermont, makes me really sad. To keep anger and frustration and that deep sadness at bay, though, I show up, again and again, and try to put these upsetting moments in a larger context, offset them, as it were, with beauty and other cool stuff, like that Trillium, which makes me think of my mother, who loved early spring ephemerals and wild flowers in general.
All the stuff, eh? Rarely simple but sometimes clear (like that luscious water)