It is Friday, what’s new in Collingwood today,
the email news feed is as consistent as I
scanning for good news, any
photos of double rainbows in rain filled skies, of
sun rising or setting over the bay, numbers of
cases falling, deaths lessening
yet there are deaths, there is loss, someone
is grieving and I am swimming in the bay,
celebrating first little arms wrapped around
my neck in months,
and my body has taken on new
hope, even when I speak to the daughter so far
away in the United States,
I know we will be
together again before forever passes, and in the
meantime I will zoom, I will delight in face painting
across miles and I will hold tight confident
in the wellness of friends, of family,
and the
wonder of time and space, found for gardening
and swimming and reading and hiking and being
wondering how I will hold it all as we open
to old possibilities made new, to the options , the
wonder of a cleaner, friendlier world,
open in new ways to difference, to rejection of
ism’s that support some at the cost of others, knowing
I am a benefactor and giving up privilege is
a challenge felt even in these days of knowing
that my family is safe and well, and others are sick
dying some because they do not have
a home with a yard, with a bay to swim in or a
trail to walk or bike
on, or the privilege that comes
with retirement and safety from
a front line job that puts me at risk
one of my children is doing front line work,
so far she has not tested positive for the virus
of Covid, her family is not free from the
deadly virus of racism the
unfairness requires action
sometimes,I am up to the task and other times
inadequacy surrounds me and despair wins out
over the belief in the possibility of ever
experiencing the change that this world
requires but today I
know that the virus will
not last forever, there is a brave new generation
rising up and filling this grandmother
with faith and confidence they stand
knowing they make a difference.
Amen sister.
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