Being Your Own Rainbow in a Grey World
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Today, I attended my grandson Nick’s “Class of 2024 Seventh Grade Class Ring Ceremony.”
I am trying to remember seventh grade, much less 1961!
Fortunately, neither my son nor Nick’s other grandparents could remember seventh grade.
Nick read a poem, “Standing Out From The Crowd,” by an amateur bard named SebastianMelmoth, who started writing poetry after the death of his mother.
As a good grandparent, I enjoyed the poem and was proud of my grandson.
One line resonated with me,
Your journey, your pathway to happiness
Being your own rainbow in a grey world
The sky is grey on many of my walks, and I must push myself to finish my steps.
On my grief journey, I have to remind myself that the way forward is to listen to Sebastian,
Standing out from the crowd
Shining through life’s struggles
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Walking in a Mild, Grey Winter
"This winter looks good thru the end of the month and into early February," a fellow walker says to me when our paths cross in Nomehagan Park.
I stop petting his dog and remind him that I will walk whatever winter brings..
"Me too," he responds.
He might be correct, as we are over eleven degrees above average for January, and the last eight years have been the warmest in recorded history.
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