Attending Attention

Inspired by K.A.B.

Attending Attention

Being aware is the tricky part... Every snowflake has a lesson.

The light fluffy ones and the ones full of a heaviness that could weigh us down,

But we have to shift their presence in order to make our own path safe...

And so there I was all layered and bundled, getting snowed on as well,

Taking a swath of a mixture of frozen water, white fallen clouds given substance

And weight - only thinking in the moment to clear the double wide drive...

The steps to the door, and the side walkways...push, settle the mass

Into the shovel and heave ho - sailing without a ship in the winter’s atmosphere

All concentration focused with only the slight distraction of a few passer-bys.

And that is how I was for about an hour; cloaked, scarfed, hatted, mittened, booted;

All before breakfast, because I didn’t know that school had been canceled -

So the grandchildren wouldn’t be traveling - and most folks shouldn’t have either...

Driving in that morning mess white knuckles grasping steering wheels - only creeping

Twenty miles per hour on roads not yet plowed thinking that they had no other alternatives -

But life is always choices, and safety and self preservation needs full recognition.

©JP/davh