November 10th
"People tell you to keep your "courage" up. But the time for courage was when she was sick, when I took care of her and saw her suffering, her sadness, and when I had to conceal my tears. Constantly one had to make a decision, put on a mask, and that was courage. 
- Now courage means the will the live and there's all too much of that."
  Roland Barthes

Now I ask for courage
from the Divine, the Beloved
from you.
It's all a dream,
me here, you somewhere else,
when I feel as though you are still among us.
I pray for new courage, new strength, new wisdom.

Amen.

Sunday Haiku
 old decaying tree,
 new growth with leaves and branches
 all at once I live.