a contemplative poem about the risk of remaining stubborn or stuck in our ways with lazy or restrictive thinking. This takes away the opportunity to be reformed, altered, transformed. We need to seek and let in new perspectives and challenges in anticipation that they will change us.

a contemplative poem about acknowledging those events in our past, fragrant or thorny, that marked us. Although helping to shape us, we need to let them go - lay them down - and move forward with appreciation of the character they created in us.

A poem about setting aside time to slow it all down in order to recognize where we are at, what we need, and to focus on all the good possibilities that are before us