for Jayne

The beautiful bougainvillea in the background belongs to our neighbor, Dominique. It’s quiet magnificent, so elegant and graceful. Even though it’s several rooftops away, I regularly stalk it. Because I like to see beauty grow.

So much is going on. Too much. And too much of the wrong thing. It’s altering my perception and traumatizing my bio-rhythms. The world belongs to me as much as it does to anyone else. So why am I getting the vibe that I am trespassing on someone else’s territory even though the territory is my own?

Maybe I just need to spend more time nourishing the core.

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