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With acrobatics, the savvy salmon begin the long journey home

Another stolen moment, locked in dance;

hands connected ever – forever - never in a million will this music stop beating -

two hearts, needing the other

inspired by https://flic.kr/p/2qjpc13

Her quill, dipped in ink crafted from Gall Wasp powder, swoops in arcs and heart

Forever in motion, you flow over rocks and ramble, while we, the debris, float with you, following you, trusting you to guide us back home

for #ds106 Daily Create

A little silence inside the cup of coffee; in morning, writing

A sudden puddle on the pavement of our street, a fun-house mirror

All day it continues, each kindness reaching toward another—a stranger singing to no one ...

— from For The Sake Of Strangers by Dorianne Laux

You spent your day in hesitation, waiting for the moment when kindness might come

But what if in that waiting, you missed the opportunity to receive the grace of another's reaching out

And so, too, today brings the possibility of each of us making one small act to alter the life of another

Sing the song another might hear

for #openwrite

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152177/for-the-sake-of-strangers

Unexpectedly, swooping down, wings extended; a hawk on the hunt

I thought you should know the first one wasn't the last one — two others arrived afterwards, all born healthy and now settling into adulthood;

the oldest, the one you knew and loved and held and hugged, a maker of documentary films and creative arts;

the middle, the one you knew was coming but could not hold on long enough to see, a weekend club DJ in New York City;

the youngest, the one you never knew but might have loved the most, a hip-hop music producer living in a college room in Boston

I thought you should know we're doing OK

for my Mom, who died at an age younger than I am right now

for #openwrite

Settle in silence, then broken ever after with children's laughter