Worth A Thousand ​(2020-Jan)

If a picture is worth
A thousand words,
​How many thoughts
Can the image in my mind
Hold that
A thousand words is worth
At least a mention
Seeding stories yet untold
Beginning to unfold
​From a captured state
Suspended in time and
Ordered to speak in order
For each word to tell its worth
Is a thousand songs
Calling out as so many
Voices ringing out singing
With one melody seeking
Harmony and discord mix
All the sounds seeping
Through the cracks
In our souls
Each song from our hearts
Is worth a thousand
Pictures shining forth
Painting scenes from our
Past with light and dark
Tones etched into how
Now we breathe deeply so
We are able to live
And touch every
Dream of each
Picture, Word, Song
That is worth
​A thousand wishes.
Magnolia in the night (2020-Apr)
Magnolia / in the night
after twilight / after midnight
there is no fright / there is no light
come what might / come in spite
keep it bright / keep it tight
make it right / stay in sight

Black Lives Matter (2020-Jun)
#FightRacism #FightCovid19 #RainbowWarriors
Link to actions > blacklivesmatter.cardd.co

My watch stopped working last March
but I can still tell it is time,
time to stop watching,
time to start marching,
time to keep watch for our neighbors
working on the front line,
time to keep saying what matters...
Black Lives Matter

​How many days, years, decades, centuries,
have passed since we were asked to stay safe
at home and dream of yesterdays?
How many times do we have to count the loss
of another someone we counted on who was
not safe even at home and will not live out their
dreams tomorrow?!
Say her name.
Breonna Taylor

​I try to stand up
but can't see clearly
through the smoke and tears,
find it hard to breathe
through the mask of fears,
but at least I can
while they could not.
Say his name.
George Floyd

Today is another day
to count the countless voices
shouting in grief and anger,
to hear the silent screams
of personal loss and societal injustice,
to shatter the broken systems
that spike the fever of our existence.
What do we miss today?
100,000+ souls

​Mother Earth is hurting
her children are crying
for we all need healing
from who we are
to who we can be
for each other
with all the vivid colors of our ancestors...
Are we ready to fight with the light of love?
rainbow warriors

🥠 A fortune cookie in hand is worth a bunch on the tray !

I offer you these pieces that were each inspired by writings found in a random fortune cookie 🥠. Choose one, open it up, pull out what you find, look and listen for yourself! Do you taste any truth or detect a hint of your destiny; can you see your lucky numbers; or will you learn anything new?​ If not, no worries, because maybe #FortuneCookieAlwaysWrong. Good luck!
​Beauty Lucky (2020-Apr)
🥠 Beauty is its various forms appeals to you.
Right Now (2020-Apr)
​🥠 The time is right to make new friends.
Rest, Xiūxi 休息 (2020-Apr) 🥠 Your original ideas will get you well-deserved recognition. Learn Chinese: Rest, Xiūxi 休息
A Fortune in Hot Wasabi Peas
-or- Express Yourself as Trash Can (2020-Apr)
🥠 Express yourself in the only way you know how.
FOLLOW A LEADER (2020-May)
🥠 A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself. (2019-Aug)