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Change by Design Book

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There is Beauty

turquoise blue stairs leading to...
There is beauty in the resistance
Moved to the beat of the drum
The drum beats inside your head

Am I enough
the beat wants to know

It is a refrain that moves mountains
and holds me still

Moving from possible to impossible
and back again

The words dance slowly
through the darkest night

Illumined only by the barest moon
hanging outside
the frosted window pane

Do crows fly in the darkness
of the night or only
in the darkness of my heart

Power comes in numbers
too big to ignore
And too small to pay attention to
We ignore the little things until 
Suddenly…explosion
Consuming all on its path
A path strewn with adventure
And danger
And delight

The razor’s edge
Walk the razor edge as you enter
and bow

What do you hold as sacred
Is it beyond the scared spot safely
tucked away in your heart
Beyond the secret shame I cling to
as precious
Beyond the gifts of not enough

Receiving the darkness
It is the journey to the light
Dancing in the shadows
Shapes morph and blur as colors dull

The outstretched hand grabs the knob
Tugging
The light floods in
As the door opens 

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Lake Ontario sunset in motion

Us Is One

Delicious 
Voracious 
Floating in a sea of silence 

Mind quiet in this moment 
Watch the fear as
it slides and slithers across the floor 
 
Into the crevices of my mind
It seeks a hold below the radar
of my awareness 

Welcomed with open arms
Fully embodied it demands control  A Power only I can give it 

Moment by moment 
The tug-of-war unfolds
Rope frayed and threadbare
Who are we to want more 
Who are we to claim space
Who are we to stand tall
Chest forward  

Heart wide open is power 
A power birthed
of vulnerability 
 
Heart wide open to the fragility
of being human
A fragility that makes us one  

Feel the fear
Include the fear
Beyond the fear 

Diving through
the blazing hoop of scarcity 
I am enough

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