Now is the time to feel alive (WC)

(Wendy Cabell, January 7, 2025, feast of (above) Our Lady of Egypt. Image from here.)

Now is the time to feel alive

58th birthday this Sunday

New year, new word: staircase

Our Lady of the Pillar

Jacob’s Ladder

DNA

Still, it’s images of making my bed, candles lit — first thing

Of wiggles of any kind, just ten minutes, in day’s weave

Of stopping to rest often, to read, reach out

Of sensing — even for a second –-

       vast soft and gracious 

                   space

*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by “This Birthday” by E.J. Koh. From Lisa Freedman’s BreatheReadWrite, January 7, 2025.