Today is my birthday (October 3) so you might be reading this afterwards. Age is not just a number because this next milestone I'll have can't be spinned not to sound old! Can't believe how old I am but glad I made it.
Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass, even when it is hidden
behind clouds they find it via the polarization of ultraviolet light
from areas of blue sky.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being dance from ear to ear. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you? God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there, And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do To you and me; so take the lively air, And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go.