Stories Collected While Living in France

French la Vie

Everyday Gift

Corey amaro flowers underfoot

 

 

 

Thank you little flowers that are underfoot, giving way without a cry, as I pass by.

Thank you fresh air that fills my lungs restoring me without my constant awareness.

Thank you, light that shows me today and guides me towards tomorrow.

Thank you, heart, for beating, for dancing within me, even when I do not hear your steady song.

Thank you eyes that look like the eyes of many ancestors ahead of me, whose shape I see in the faces I love, who show me I belong.

Thank you arms that hold me tight, Thank you word sorry for-giving me the courage to try again and again.

Thank you little flowers that reach to the sun after I walk by and scent my days with a fragrance of peace.

Thank you I need to say that again and again. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

6 responses to “Everyday Gift”

  1. Chris Wittmann

    Amen, well said Corey, we all need to say “thank you” more often!

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  2. Patti

    Beautiful post, Cory, and thanks be to God for the creation of all of these things for us to love, enjoy and take care of.

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  3. Diogenes

    Nicely said, Corey. 😉
    Off topic, I know, but I do think a while back there was a discussion on this blog about the grafitti murals at 5Pointz in Queens, NY. They were painted over by a developer.
    But today a judge awarded the artists $6.7 million in compensation. The story below:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/nyregion/5pointz-graffiti-judgment.html

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  4. Kathie B

    Am making the top tier of Martha Stewart’s marzipan wedding cake (with daquoise center layer swabbed in apricot jam) for Farmboy Husband for Valentine’s Day tomorrow. Have the cake make, will bake the daquoise (merinigue) layer overnight at a low temp, then make the rum-scented buttercream tomorrow, and assemble in time for dessert at dinner.
    If only we lived near Neldam’s Danish Bakery instead (where we got our original wedding cake!).

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  5. Amylia Grace Yeaman

    Beautiful, Corey. Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes by Mark Twain: “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
    Xoxoxo

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  6. Jeanne

    Thank you for your beautiful postings each day and for you.
    Happy Valentine’s day with much love and many smiles across the miles.
    Love Jeanne

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