Walking welcomes the weary,
is nice to my knees,
calls from the windows
leads to bird songs and breeze.

There are more than 2,000 ways to find love
and believing is key
when you believe impossible things -
Possible love is seen -
and sometimes it happens
six times before breakfast.

How lucky am I to have a puppy
who looks like he’s laughing
as all we can do is spend six hours a day training him,
only for it to feel like sometimes he hasn’t learned a thing.

I often see the beginning and end
at the same time -
you’re little and big,
young and old -
toddler and wise.

There is general acceptance and denial of age -
questions surround what it means 
to arrive at life’s middle, especially
as people we love leave us,
and we sometimes love enough to let them,
and grieve them.