Inspired by environmental social scientist Franca Buelow.
Your smiling and dancing mother swings through the room as we talk
The laugh of your father follows her for they
are present as you tell the story
of a childhood outside
and inside books
“stay curious”
echoes
“be you”
And now, today
weaving the strands together
life unexpectedly adding a few more
diversity of thought that each serves to inform the others
like a sunset blending light, sky, cloud – together, all the more brilliant
