100 Days of Gladness: Day 38

Listening for the secrets of the world

tinalear
2 min read6 days ago
Photo: Tina Lear

He is telling her a secret.

It’s a ten-second moment between mother and son,
and I catch it, smiling, with a silenced phone.

I know that in this same moment,
the mother has muted the din of other thoughts.
Deep decisions, the ones that disrupt, unsettle, break ground.

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tinalear

Novelist. Poet. Musician. Buddhist. Quilter. Animal lover. Visible grownup. Hidden child. Secret dancer when all alone. Makes good bread.