All beginnings are tenuous: wishes without guarantee.
Take a breath, close your eyes, let go—
Exhale the yesterdays
watch their whirling dance
free fall
settle and fade
Pocket your hands and walk away.
Inhale, exhale, and dance
sideways along the edge of tomorrow
looking always at today.
-Lisa J Haugen
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
all photo credits, poetry, and other writing unless credited otherwise belong to Lisa J Haugen; do not use, distribute or reproduce without the author’s permission or appropriate citation.
All of us walking
grumbling
crying
laughing
dancing
playing
around on this planet are
both a polished and rough draft:
a work of art—a being—in eternal progress.