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The Muse

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Some of us bleed on the road
some of us bend under the load
  of a real, day-job career

Some of us have to wait
  until the children are asleep

Some of us sing only
  in the privacy of the bath

But ALL of us dance with the Muse.

The Muse
She appears when you have no time
coaxing you from other pursuits
waking you from stone-cold sleep

The Muse
never will leave us alone

We all want to dance with her
all desire attention
longing for one more kiss
is our secret wish.

©7/1/2012  by Steve Eulberg

Sunday in the Park

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Sunday in the park
with Zach
Washington Park:
A hula hoop group
skillfully spinning
and stretching
one square, many round
teaching a child;
Beneath the twin spires
of Sts Peter and Paul church

A large happy group
clothed in white
standing around a table
with open bottles of celebration

The Asian woman
who says only
“Thank-you” as she
reaches for your
empty (or full) pop can

The Mime troupe
packing up its stage
and sound gear

The open-ring-frisbee tossers
whose trajectory overlaps
the football throwers

The Broadway Muni,
The Duck and open-top
tourists busses all
traversing the same path

The couples scattered here and there
He–head lying on her legs
She–focused on her phone

The black bikini-clad sausage woman

The dog who quietly finds
something to roll in

This couple who lay, side-by-side
heads turner toward each other
beneath the shade of his hat
balanced on both their cheeks

The aspen shade that approaches us
As the sun saunters its path
behind the puffy marine clouds
that scurry by

The white reflections off of
certain grass blades that, trodden down,
lie flat
between and beside
the deep green of those that resiliently arise

That couple, trying two different
trees as the hangers for their
cupcake piñata

Connie raises her turquoise hood
to protect her fair head from
lengthy solar exposure
I revel that we can sit so long
without worry for burning
Zach, simply glad to have the sun’s presence

We mention
the musical
and the painting
and converse
and bask

Sunday in the Park
with Zach

(c)2013 Steve Eulberg

Brain Pickings Weekly

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by Steve Eulberg

I am so grateful to the patrons who support my work, that I am trying to pay their generosity forward.

Maria Popova has created and curated a resource of wisdom that has become one of my favorites named Brain Pickings (www.brainpickings.org)

I have subscribed to its weekly newsletter, which posts arrives every Sunday called Brain Pickings Weekly.  It is described as a “free weekly interestingness digest.”  For me, it certainly IS full of interestingness.

Recently, Maria shared 9 Learnings from 9 Years of hosting this labor of love.  She notes that they are an expansion of what was originally 7 Learnings from 7 Years, published in 2013 for her seventh Anniversary of the project.

Over the past 9 days I have been sharing them in my Facebook Feed, one at a time (except I divided #4 into 4A and 4B).  Many commenters have responded with how powerful and timely they find these reflections to be.

I want to encourage all who have found these insights powerful to join me in supporting Maria’s work.

So that you can have all the posts in a quick reference list, I will only list the first lines of the 9 here, but I highly encourage you to not only visit and read, chew, savor and digest the original post, but I want to encourage you to join me in subscribing AND donating to support the continuation of this thoughtful, fun and invigorating project.

And now, here is the list:

1.  Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind.

2.  Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone.

3.  Be generous.

4A.  Build pockets of stillness into your life.

4B.  Most importantly, sleep.

5.  When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them.

6.  Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

7.  “Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.”

8.  Seek out what magnifies your spirit.

9.  Don’t be afraid to be an idealist.

And let me know which of these 9 speak the loudest to you today!

Soul’s Passage

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My soul’s passageon a winding, twisting pathis a way with many bendsharboring surprisesThese I both fear and welcome these intrusions in my rhythmthat open both my heartand my ears to the possible new song A melody that is bornfrom a melancho…

Finding My Pen

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So many unwritten lineswordslettersover such an expanseof time.The thoughts have flooded,roiling and pounding likeboiling wavesthe images bright and vividpale and diffusedclearly confusionThe transition to a keyboardFor journaling my thoughts, poetry a…