Today I wake with positivity, with hope, with gratitude.

I walk in that hope…a vision.

Good morning to the graceful, fresh deer tracks in the dirt

Good morning to the brisk tracks my dogs lay alongside hers

Good morning to mine, that follow.

I mesh alongside them, both graceful and brisk

In unison

Can we learn to move together, to live together, to co-exist?

Good morning to the full, blossoming dandelions that grow wild and free alongside the hay crop.

Humbly, I watch the bumble bee in the alfalfa and the weeds

At the blooming flowers

Taking, making, sharing, and bringing the necessary ecosystem into full circle

In full unison

The bumble bee knows not the division we have created within the flower

She only knows their nectar. 

I walk alongside them

Today I woke with positivity, with hope, with gratitude.

I walked in that hope…the vision

Until the sound boomed across me, over me and I’m awakened from my fantasy, from my positivity.

I’m trying so hard. 

Good morning blue sky…

I’m sorry that the plane raced overhead spreading toxic herbicides and pesticides

I’m sorry that your skies are filled with chemical

I raise my palms to you in offering of healing

I have tears in my eyes. 

I feel your pain 

I feel the Earth as me when she is tortured and sickened

In unison. 

I’ve tuned into her, and I can’t go back

I can smell the chemicals

I can taste their sick bitterness on my lips

I can feel them in my throat.

I’m sorry perfect, smooth beauty of a sky that circles me, frames me, blankets me in stars

I wish I could protect you and the Earth under you 

I’m sorry that the spray plane ignites past you in a flurry of noise and chemical

Bursting with pollutants, carcinogens, death.

I don’t know how to co-exist with this

My lungs, my skin, my babies, the deer, the dogs don’t want to be washed in chemical.

We don’t want to be bathed in it.

I don’t know how to co-exist with this

I need a clean space

Does it exist anymore?

Good-bye industry

I can’t be amongst this anymore.

I care for my body and worship it with its power, potential, its gift of purity, nature, breath

I raise my palms, open, in question, in need of guidance

I want to walk this Earth for as long as I can

This powerful Earthly paradise…

She can’t handle anymore, and I am her

Please can we wake up, it hurts

We need to protect her, we are HER

In unison

We walk alongside the Earth, with her, in her, we are her

I cannot fix the Earth

But maybe I can help, let me make it happen

One breath at a time

I will wish

I will manifest change for my family

I will blow the dandelions fluff, the pappus, West

A wish for good fate

A wish for my children 

A wish for my children to breathe with me in the rainforest 

Where we can be together, alongside, in unison 

Where the trees breathe with us, and the evergreens, forever staunch in their profound wisdom pour their hearts and souls into us just through their pure presence

Where we are sound amongst them

Where we are one there amongst that air of purity

Alongside them, in unison 

A vision. 

Let us walk among them in community and unity and let us help protect them as not my children but as my teachers and mentors

Let us sit amongst them and allow them to be our greatest teachers 

And I promise to mother their baby saplings with the tenderness and love I impart to my blood children. 

Because 

They are my souls

In unison

Please let us walk amongst them, with her, in her. 

A vision.