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Weathering:

y face catches the wind
from the snow line
and flushes with a flush
that will never wholly settle.
Well, that was a metropolitan vanity,
wanting to look young forever, to pass.
I was never a pre-Raphaelite beauty
and only pretty enough to be seen
with a man who wanted to be seen
with a passable woman.

But now that I am in love
with a place that doesn't care
how I look and if I am happy,
happy is how I look and that's all.
My hair will grow grey in any case,
my nails chip and flake,
my waist thicken, and the years
work all their usual changes.

If my face is to be weather beaten as well,
it's little enough lost
for a year among the lakes and vales
where simply to look out my window
at the high pass
makes me indifferent to mirrors
and to what my soul may wear
over its new complexion.

Fleur Adcock

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Dear Hearts,

Fleur Adcock gifted herself with a year in the Lake District in the north of England to get to know herself better and to write poetry.

I can relate to Fleur's poem on this my (Rick's)59th birthday (January 16). As I get to know myself better I lose interest in what my soul may be wearing over this aging complexion. As the waist thickens, hair grays and falls away, and time etches wrinkles and taters over the garment, my inner landscape as well as the world around me is looking better with each new moment.

"An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress."

~William Butler Yates

Make it a soulful week.

Love and blessings,

Rick and Patricia
Namaste

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