Here I am, adrift in a day filled with smoldering breezes that are quick to turn stagnant,
looking for the sun to burn away the dust and smoggy haze in the air so I can breathe. June gloom in the valley. Sticky air carried over from overripe peaches decaying amidst orchard clods not unlike the peonies pirouetting in patriotic colors taken to my dad's grave in the middle of a sweltering day in June for their last dance.
I like to imagine the sun is on my side and it battles every particle by singeing it, melting it,
blasting it into yet finer particles where the dust becomes blankets on the leaves of trees so they don't get burnt...because they are so tender and beautiful. The very leaves that canopy over my fair skin and squinting eyes as I encourage the sun to do its job, knowing there is a fine line between what is inexplicably lovely and harmful.
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Refining myself daily from the inside out... Feeling blessed by the simple things: sunshine laughter love -
Life is funny. At the beginning of the semester I pressed my slacks so as to be sure to look professional in all of my classes. I went to be...
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yes......a very fine line. i praised the sun as a child growing up here in the desert because i spent my entire summers submerged at the neighborhood pool. at 64, i still love the sun, but see more of the harshness it brings with plants, animals and little people....people in general.......but i choose it over snow......however......there are places with a bit more balance than we experience....but this is where family is and so this is where we find ways to cope. looking forward to the monsoons! xoxo beautiful writing miss joni.....such prose.
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