Bird Sounds
Pecking
Bird on palm tree
Beating beak against trunk
I look up smiling at him
Loud bird
My Daughter Conquers the Rock Wall at Gymnastics
Evelyn climbs up
Thinks she can’t get to the top
Smiles touching ceiling
View of Toledo by El Greco
Katie Holmes is from Toledo. My former student is from Toledo. She fought fibromyalgia all throughout winning speech competitions regionally, state-wide, and nationally in college. When she talked about her hometown, her sunny personality never allowed me to believe that Toledo could have even the slightest tinge of gray, at least not her Toledo. She was all smiles and chin-up, complements and a thoughtful question about whatever she knew I was going through. She’s a preacher now. El Greco’s View of Toledo, full of sharp-tipped castles, steep green hills, and stratus clouds int the Toledo in Spain is at odds with the woman I know from the town of the same name in Ohio. Now she preaches the Good News despite what others may see, the darkness they may paint into the corners of lightness she brings.
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