Green purple leaflets

emerge, unfold, and stretch out -

               "Hello potato!" 

 So - Father's Day.

And the lessons are Abraham dismissing Hagar and Ishmael (son),

and God saying he will make it alright (what world does that make sense in?)

and Jesus saying "I have come to set a man against his father and a woman against her mother"

and "whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me."

 

I was asked today what I have learned about being a father -

   +that someone else's success 

       brings you greater joy than any of your own,

   +that someone's else's struggles 

       bring more anguish than any of your own,

   +that someone else's suffering hurts more than your own,

   +that in a family you simply love each other, 

       not one person more (or less) than another.

Is that how it is for you, God? 

 

Joy, sunrise, coffee (1) -
longest day and shortest night -
      coffee (2), moonrise, peace.

(1) on a chair looking out the window?
(2) on a bench looking over the lake?

Small tomato plants
snug in their "wall-o-waters" 
       are holding their own.

Lettuce, rainbow chard,

spinach, radishes, summer - 

         first CSA box.

 

And cilantro, carrots, bak choi, sugar snap peas, scallions, basil(plant)!  Summer indeed; a good start. 

On the patio -

Chipmunk, squirrel, another,

          Chasing side to side. 

                    or 

In the maple tree -

Chipmunk........

       Chasing up and down. 

Boxes to the trash,

stuff set aside "till next year" (1) - 

        cleaning the garage.

 

(1) along by the stuff we set aside "till next year" last year!