Poetry Contest Winner Announcement -YAY!

Sigh and scrub the who-said-to-paint-em-white walls where the mittened and gloved fingers left prints

Inventory the cabinets, the closets, the halls ... move the Winter to the back, Spring to the front

Give deep of the things no longer needed, the sorta new, the shy of old, the one with good life still in it

Hose off the back porch, the last remnant, the memory of rock salt, dust, yesterday, cold, old

Sigh and slow a bit, think about this wood, these bricks, this family, this love, year after year renewing

Isn't it 

Grand, this springtime, this bustle, this sanctuary, this

Home?

Sigh and stop now, take a breath, find that porch swing, that hammock, that 

Iced tea so sweet it's like

Gramma made it in the sun with her own hands, glass jar, front porch, just as much a part of this

House today as she's ever been

Sigh and say your thanks, say your prayers, say to yourself

"I am, life is, all is

Good

Here, now." 

~Love and Beans

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