This is a poem that I stumbled upon and really liked it.

" You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knee's a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours , and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you  like the weld geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the  family of things."

Here I am, back from a trip to Virginia to see my sister and her family. (getting there was a disaster!!) We took a field trip to the  Lewis Ginther Botanical Gardens and had a great time and great weather. It's good to be back home !!