oh beautiful boy
young man
move your legs, pump them against the peddles
the ground
test your strength
feel the heat grow in your body, fight to go further faster
fly through this air as fast as you can
Show the wind
your determination, your excitement
and you puppy smile
it is new
you are here
wild and fresh and alive
be seen
see yourself
feel yourself
your body
feel the blood pumping through your muscles
and skin
your long perfect limbs releasing the energy of the sun
feel your arms and each powerful finger grip the handle bars as you plow through the head winds

because tomorrow
may never arrive
maybe gone
we may leave each other
as mysteriously as we came together.
We will leave each other
as mysteriously as we came together
we will leave this ground
these roads
the gravel edge
the dirt
we will leave the trees and rocks
smiles and pain
we will leave
we are walking towards the exit now
but today you are so here
as beautiful as every sunrise and sunset
ever created
as unique as every blade of grass and grain of sand on the surface of the earth
as magical as every streak of light reflected since some crazy seed of singularity
expanded
over 3 billion years ago
to make all that is joyous and violent
all that is known and unknown
that expanded 3 billion years
ago to make you
and then
take you back in.

Thank you Kara!!!

I have so much to share!  I will just start now, share more later, maybe messy.  Kara is still at the hospital but doing well. She was dehydrated so they pumped her with fluids for the night to help flush out some enzyme built up in her body.  I sat with her all evening. She is Amazing! She has some amnesia and, as before, some confusion about what is reality and what is not, but also remembers many details that kept trickling out.  I was fearful that she would come back from this more traumatized but it appears that the reverse might have happened, she might have healed some trauma and come back ready to share her wisdom. The adventure started when we were all walking back a mile and half hike from Lake Superior, with a large and messy family group some how i missed that she was the last one and when we got to the end of the trail and i waited for her but she never came, and so started a long 5 days... talking to her;  She didn't have any idea how long she had been lost but found her way back right near the parking lot where we all went in 5 days before! she ran into a family 💗  that recognized her and walked the final stretch back with her telling her how we were all looking for her and gave her a sandwich and a banana as someone else ran to get the rangers  💗 that were down below at a campground.... yesterday morning/afternoon she was on a creek that she followed down stream and took her to the trail that lead her back.  She said she could feel that people wanted her back and were sending her love.  She said there were times she was confused and mad that no one had given her a tent! but that she remembers walking and thinking well I'm lost but its not the end of the world and even feeling stronger than she has since high school, that she could do this.  Kara has dealt with a lot of pain and internal struggle.  She  is an incredibly beautiful and sensitive spirit.  She talked about being a teenager and seeing how horrible it was to discover how people both hurt her and hurt each other.  she cried tears of joy to hear of all the people looking for her, praying for her thinking of her.  She mentioned so many people and loved hearing the names of those thinking of her, the communities.  Song.  She told me song, song helped her, she sang to herself to support her as she walked,  that all animals have or understand song.  For me I celebrate this rebirth of Kara and I see that this woman who has been crying out for more love, to be seen, who needed to believe in herself and humanity just found a way to be seen, to show herself her strength, to see how ready people are to help and care for each other. She found a way to show the rest of us her gifts and remind us how beautiful and precious we each are, no matter how different or slow or even angry at times. Kara beautiful spirit, child of color and light and looking at feathers and spider webs, thank you for reminding us that each of us is such a gift. reminding us that today is the day to look in the eyes of the ones around us and see them and love them and hug them and thank the universe for the miracle that is them.  Thank you for coming home so that i could look in your eyes again and tell you with all the wordless feelings in my heart that I love you and I am beyond glad that our lives are woven and you are tied to my heart.  💗💗💗