Sometimes you come across a word you've heard, read and used many times before and now suddenly that word takes on a new life with a stronger sense of meaning. Somehow that word albeit simple becomes much, much more, more powerful and motivating... I noticed a leaf on my travels it stood out like a glittering jewel on the roadside, struck by its vivid colours and symmetrical pattern I picked up the leaf and stroked it. On touching the velvety smooth surface the word that had been on my mind for days emerged again, as I looked and thought about the leaf and the word a strange kind of sadness began to creep over me, an intense awareness that this leaf's time-bound beauty also signaled its decline...
floating leaves, fleeting
moments riding on the wind,
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Adventures yet to arrive
I await. Breathless
holding you as tenderly as you hold this message in a velvet leaf. embracing our own fragility
we live each moment for the fleeting treasure it is.
love from across the pond,
rebecca