Are We Seeing This?

<p>Over the last few years I have been swirling in settings full of dense meaning and possibility. As a pastor a pandemic food hand-offer a care coordinator a husband a dog owner a friend an <em>insert-role-here...</em></p><p><br></p><p>I've seen stuff!</p><p><br></p><p>Within the seeing is the building of meaning and metaphor and at best hopeful possibility. A hat trick that in my case leads to writing prose and poetry. Which in this <em>specific</em> case has led to a dense albeit little book of thought and feeling built around a simple phrase... </p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Are We Seeing This?</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>This</em> meaning a lot of different things.</p><p><br></p><p>The ants on our arms. </p><p>Men with froggy fathers. </p><p>The bombastic greeting of Oliver the Australian Shepherd. </p><p>The way that when my Grandpa died he suddenly was <em>everywhere</em>. </p><p>The way a hole that I stood in with my other Grandfather as a child is still through a deep time perspective holding us. Even if he is gone from his physical from.</p><p>The way mushrooms in the basement burst past their physicality into an invitation toward whimsy. </p><p>The way images of Norway can momentarily break a cycle of self-loathing for a formerly homeless client. </p><p>The way the land holds the city. </p><p>The way a branch bounces and the way that bouncing is associated with <em>so</em> <em>many</em> other pieces parceled about proximal and not.</p><p><br></p><p><em>This</em> being the flowing moments of mystery seeping themselves toward a confluence with the <em>One-Love Harmony</em> (a Presence of many names) trying to draw all things <em>toward</em>. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Are We Seeing This</em> is my best attempt at pointing to the little glimmers of light and story woven within the common and everyday. And the miraculous woven within that.</p><p><br></p><p>It's ultimately a book seeking to point toward connection and confluence. With each other ourselves different species this earth Divinity pain hope love loss etc. </p><p><br></p><p>Some pieces are playful some heavy but all seek to speak to <em>that.</em> </p><p><em>That</em> in this case being <em>this.</em> </p><p><br></p><p>Are we seeing it?</p>