MY FEELINGS

Darling, 
you asked me to write you a letter, so i am writing you a letter.  I do 
not know what I am 
writing this letter, or what this letter is supposed 
to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, 
because I love you very much
and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write 
this letter.  
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do 
not 
understand for someone you love. 
Your Father

why i wake early

hello, sun in my face.
hello, you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety

best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light

good morning, good morning, good morning.

watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.

-mary oliver

we will be walking barefoot again soon my friend.