Things of Beauty #37
Poetry, street art, beautiful music, and big helping of holiday grace
Not just one, but two short poems are included in this week's roundup of lovely things. What?! I know! So delightful!
Both poems, as well as the essay linked at the end of the list, carry a strong theme of being kind to ourselves and others. Which feels appropriate as we embark on this holiday season.
A small list of little lovelies...
❤️ This poem from Danusha Laméris from her second collection of poems, Bonfire Opera:
Small Kindnesses
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”🎨 This street art (click through to watch the video, it's adorable and amazing)!
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