WHATEVER HEAVEN OFFERS, a poem

This is how the dream feels:

simple but full

of a strange

mystery too.

I keep reaching into some

kind of bottle or box

for new

blue contact lenses.

I lay them in my eyes

to see

the color of a pale sky.

I am seeing myself 

as a teacher of writing again too.

When I wake up, absolutely

everything feels possible.

I am skywriting

I am rewiring

I am uncluttered and

bathed in

rays of buttery light.

I tell Mary about the

dream and she says

think about this:

contact has a double meaning:

it describes the lenses yes

but it is also the condition

of new touching.

YOU ARE TOUCHING THE NOW!

You have fresh vision in a

blue that is

BRAND NEW

cleansing and purifying.

It’s a wash that makes you

ready to deliver

whatever heaven

offers up.

NOW.

Editor's note: I decided this morning to scroll back through past blog posts to see what would 
come up. This one ran on February 2, 2019, a year before I started writing the new book, 
"Pearly Everlasting." It feels like it could be any moment, RIGHT IN THE NOW. Today, 
July 9, 2020, we are starting the Journal Discussion Group on Zoom. There are six amazing 
women in the group. It's exciting to think what this group might produce and share. I want to 
tell the group that I rely heavily on my journal for many reasons, but perhaps the most important
is to reinforce my SPIRITUALITY AND MY impulse to stay in the NOW.