Little Day (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, October 2, 2023, feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary (Cracow; see also here), Our Lady of the Assumption (Naples), the Guardian Angels (related image above), Saint Anna of Kashin and Blessed Maria Anna Kratochwil. On Jewish calendar Sukkot continues. Note: Yesterday was the feast day of the Barsky Icon of the Mother of God, Saint Therese the Little Flower, and blessed Cecilia who “died singing a hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary”. Image from here.)

Little Day

I do like children who do not know how to read, 

I say very simply to God what I wish to say, 

without composing beautiful sentences, 

and He always understands me.  

–-Saint Therese the Little Flower 

 

Let this day be a day 

fit for children to enter

regardless of their age,

its toys that teach so 

invitingly arranged:

                     brooms and day planners

                             glow of paintbrushes

in their angel mug

             tea and cookies on the side

     nap time when it’s all too much.

Such a place once awake!--

innocence not at stake but fed

here in head-heart-soul

where linger for airflow

flutter--note now

all sings

*From combined prompts: free write as inspired by excerpts from “Dark Harvest” by Joseph Millar and  “In Harvest” by Sophie Jewett. From Lisa Freedman’s BreatheReadWrite Studio time, October 2, 2023.