things you can do

things you can do: 

garden at night / the plants don’t mind and god invented the headlamp for this express purpose / believe or not believe in god, but if you must believe, believe in a wild god that brings about spring / watch the weeping cedars and spruces weather the frigid winds of winter / marvel at their most exquisitely entangled root systems for the express purpose of staying upright in a sometimes unforgiving world / forgive quickly or don’t / put that second arrow back in its quiver / play with clay / working the earth through your hands is for us all / don’t underestimate the value of gumming up the machine / being an intentional nuisance is revolutionary praxis / learn from moss and lichen and fungi / rhizomatic expansion is how we get free / drink coffee slowly / collect stamps and send mail often / make extra food and share / do not buy the new thing / get familiar with enough / check on that friend you haven’t heard from in a while / do not take their absence personally / check for the moon each night / do not take her absence personally / luxuriate in a glass of ice water / walk bravely into the freezing sound in the shadow of the mountains whose age we cannot truly quantify / fall in love again and again and again / the heart was made to wear and be worn proudly / burn things like worlds that aren’t big enough for everyone / light things like dark rooms full of children’s faces or the smoke bush in the front yard / indulge in a little restraint / indulge in abundance / live risky to live free / live risky to live full / full of abandon or full of resolve / or simply full to the wide brim with the wonder of the world and all her keepers.