||| BY BRUCE HANNA |||


Struggling Times

For the world
for deepest personal integrity
each of us

Time to open
to balance
dial down the intensity

Go gently in to the day
the moments
the discussion

Time for
a slow acronym?
Soft Loving Open Welcoming

Take your time
make your own
make several — share them

Find an image
beautiful and complex
as your life — our lives

A
SLOW
ONE

This image is on the wall of our sitting room.
I look at it every morning. If I could see thru walls 
(and a mountain ridge), the place is five miles away —
The Santa Ynez River hasn’t looked like this for twenty years,
but Nature has recovered from worse than droughts… SLOWLY


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