(Wendy Cabell, September 14, 2023, feast day of the (above) Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross, the Lesna Icon of the Mother of God, Our Lady of Einsiendeln, Our Lady of Steinbach, and Blessed María López de Rivas Martínez (confidant of Saint Teresa of Avila; body incorrupt). On Jewish calendar today is the Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (3760 BC). Image from here.)
Minimal Requirements
Love needs time and space;
everything else is secondary.
–Pope Francis
Need time
need space
to move around in.
To be safe in, seen not jostled
jarred by the careless.
Time taken to care
more, not less.
Love needs
s p a c e
t o m o v e
a r o u n d
i n.
*Expanded play on above's quote: "To care takes time, space, and room. Everything else is secondary.-–compiled/freely adapted quotes from Pope Francis and Laura Alary
**From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by “homage to my hips” by Lucille Clifton (“need space to move around in” quoted above). From Lisa Freedman’s BreatheReadWrite Studio Time, September 14, 2023.
