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FAMOUS IN YOUR U NIVERSE

October 25, 2024 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

FAMOUS
Naomi Shihab Nye

The river is famous to the fish.

The loud voice is famous to silence,   
which knew it would inherit the earth   
before anybody said so.   

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds   
watching him from the birdhouse.   

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.   

The idea you carry close to your bosom   
is famous to your bosom.   

The boot is famous to the earth,   
more famous than the dress shoe,   
which is famous only to floors.

The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it   
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.   

I want to be famous to shuffling men   
who smile while crossing streets,   
sticky children in grocery lines,   
famous as the one who smiled back.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,   
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,   
but because it never forgot what it could do.
(My thanks to Naomi Shihab Nye, via Poetry Foundation.)
U NIVERSE

It might as well be useless

I mean

What exactly is a

NIVERSE

Nary another nothing until a

U

Is brought not just to it

but for IT

Who would think

(Not Many)

That it takes a U

your simply perfectly imperfect

You-est U

To not just complete

include

But actually create

The Universe

with the best part being

that it is evermore being

Created/Recreated because of

Oh the holiest of holies

U

JUST A MOMENT: THE NOTES OF OUR LIVES

October 23, 2024 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

The notes of our lives are not played by ourselves. . .

. . .when we pause
to hear those notes
it’s just not some scale that we maybe used to know
it truly is a joy to the world
that we can’t hear at any other time. . .

Now the real question is not just will you hear that song you play. . .
Will you share that song?
In Just a moment we can all know

A BAD DAY

October 21, 2024 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

BAD DAY by Daniel Potter came out well over 14 years ago and we haven’t heard much from him since but he left us with a question: WHAT QUALIFIES AS A BAD DAY? And maybe even more: WHAT DO YOU DO ABOUT IT?

Ok. You had a bad day. Seriously, not to minimize, that but exactly what does the Bad Day look like for you? No matter what your definition is, we can bet that it’s varied between each of us and all of us a bad day arrange from a wrong cup of coffee in the morning to a fender bender to the loss of a pet to the loss of a loved one to a bad bad result from a test, to any one who has had to suffer and now endure the effects of recent hurricanes and flooding or living in the Middle East.

Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Pexels.com

Whatever a bad day is, can we safely assume that somebody that doesn’t look like they’re having a bad day, just may be having one and that maybe just maybe, we can make it less bad, not better, just less bad?

Now guaranteed. . .If you do that and you consistently do that. . . bad day’s may not completely go away, but they do fade and lose some of their sting. . .
IN THE MEANTIME:

Please, try hard not to make your bad day a bad day for Another

THE WEIGHT OF WAIT

October 16, 2024 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

I LOVE TO WAIT. . .said nobody ever. . .

It’s the pure test of what we call what most of us don’t have: P A T I E N C E

WE HAVE NONE, and if we’re made to wait all the audacity or anger; all our frustrations, not just from waiting, but everything, EVERYTHING else comes into that moment, and it adds to the WEIGHT of WAIT

But let’s imagine, just for a moment, (that’s right, a REAL MOMENT where we self-impose WAIT) if we use that time, those mere moments of time, of what we call waiting; if we use it to think, to analyze, to listen, to pause, to dare say: analyze or meditate. . .

Presume of all the weight. . .so let’s suppose the next time that you’re forced to WAIT we actually use it for one of those things. . .wouldn’t it change everything. . . taking the WEIGHT out of the WAIT

It could happen. . .

The question is

will it ?

Let’s, uhmmmmm wait and see. . .

NOT JUST A HAT

October 14, 2024 By ChuckBehrens 2 Comments

IN A WORLD WHERE WE ARE KNOWN AND OFTEN CHAMPIONED
FOR ALL OF THE HATS WE WEAR. . .

WHO WOULD THINK
IT’S NOT THE ONE’S WE WEAR
IT’S THE ONE’S WE DON’T WEAR

THAT JUST MAY MATTER
THE MOST. . . .
(Sometimes it all comes down to a hat. . .)

(My thanks to Amina Amdeen and Joseph Weidknecht, via StoryCorps.)

WHAT GRIEF LOOKS LIKE

October 11, 2024 By ChuckBehrens 3 Comments

AND WE ARE ALL IN IT. . .
ALL OF IT
L I F E
that has this amazing coin
no bank contains
but each pocket contains:
LOVE
with the flip side of
GRIEF

This is what grief is. A hole ripped through the very fabric of your being.
The hole eventually heals along the jagged edges that remain. It may even shrink in size.
But that hole will always be there.
A piece of you always missing.
For where there is deep grief, there was great love.
Don’t be ashamed of your grief.
Don’t judge it.
Don’t suppress it.
Don’t rush it.
Rather, acknowledge it.
Lean into it.
Listen to it.
Feel it.
Sit with it.
Sit with the pain. And remember the love.
This is where the healing will begin.

[Melancolie by Albert György]
This heartbreakingly beautiful sculpture is called Melancolie. It was created by Albert György (living in Switzerland, but born in Romania) and can be found in Geneva in a small park on the promenade (Quai du Mont Blanc) along the shore of Lake Geneva

S O. . .
What does your GRIEF
really look like?
Please, tell me. . .
I’m not here to take it from you
. . .it’s not mine to have
but I’d be honored to
c o m p a n i o n
it
with you

JUST A MOMENT: IN THE FLICKER OF A FLAME

October 9, 2024 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

BiGGER
BETTER
BRIGHTER
that’s what it’s all about in our world today, isn’t it. . .
and oh guess what. . .
we’ve been told countless times over
IN FACT
just watch the news
or just being in a group of people that you don’t even know
standing in line at a grocery store
or a coffee shop
S T O P
Listen to all the bad news that the world is giving us
P L A C E S
As if we don’t have those very dark places in our life
that are asking for what not a bonfire
not even a candle
or even a constant flame. . .
How about just a
F L I C K E R
just a flicker of Hope
and psssssssssssssssssssssssssst:
even if it comes from a
fake candle
that gives
it’s better than a brand new one that doesn’t. . .
so maybe the biggest question is:
ARE YOU THAT FLICKER
FROM A FLAME
AND LIGHT
A DARK SPOT
IN A DARK PLACE
TAHT NEEDS TO BE ILLUMINATED. . .
Are you?
BE THE SPARK
THE EMBER
THAT STARTS
THINGS
G L O W I N G

NEEDING TO BE MORE THAN JUST SOMETHING

October 7, 2024 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

Sometimes LIFE calls for us to be more than just

S O M E T H I N G

JUST A MOMENT: REMEMBERING TO FORGET

October 2, 2024 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

WELL. . .
Have you. . .
Have you ever walked into room and forgot why you walked in?
Hey, wouldn’t be great if we could forget to remember
what we really need to forget to remember. . .
The wrong somebody did us. . .
The story somebody told about us. . .
The word they used against us. . .
Hard to forget all of those THAT’S
but we have a nice saying that salt-in-the-wound-STINGS:
FORGIVE AND FORGET
or how about this one:
“I’ll forgive you, but I won’t forget it. . .”
W E L L
Maybe it’s time. . .
maybe it’s really time that we do forget to remember
Seriously, right now, right here,
what it is that YOU need to forget to remember. . .
Uhhhh, guess what. . .
I T
doesn’t take a lifetime
or ages
or conditions
I T
can happen in, in, in just a moment. . .
The question is,
WILL
I T

YOUR WOW MOMENT

September 30, 2024 By ChuckBehrens Leave a Comment

What’s your WOW MOMENT. . .

Was your WOW one of you ever been having been someplace and then your sensor came out your Boundary Guard rose up and it kept you from not saying what you really felt. . . ?

W O W. . .

What’s your WOW moment?

Was it at a concert?

Was it at a play?

Was it a movie?

Was it just sitting there watching a sunset or watching one of your kids or grandkids
play. . . ?

When’s the last time you could contain your

W O W

and what
and when
do you think the next time will be. . . ?

In the meantime, watch THIS WOW MOMENT again and then be about creating some:

W O W

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