29 February Leap Day

This is the same photo

As 28 February

Except...

You can see the Sedona-ness

In the background

And you can really imagine

That I, Gracie Mae

Will BE your personal 

Tour Guide-ette

To the wonders

And the majesty

Of

My first place I called

Home

Happy Leap Day

Love,

Gracie

28 February

If I could

I would 

Stand upright

Walking BEside you

BEing the One True Friend

I really AM to you in your extraordinary Life

27 February

It does my heart good

Gracie girl

To remember you happy

Feeling better

More yourself

Which you seem to DO

So easily

Naturally

Even if

Or when

Things aren't quite going

Your way.

26 February

Seeing you this way

In your full-on "filet" position

Though it's from several years ago

Makes me smile wider

Relax a little bit more

Knowing

Your problems of the Now

Are on the mend

And YOU are, too.

25 February

I love your way of spreading out

"Filet of Grace" style

or, as Gary called it

"Splatterbutt" style

It looks so natural

Always has

And it always makes me

Laugh!!!

24 February

Oh Goodness Gracie!!

You DID indeed LOVE

When Dry Creek

Was Very Wet

And muddy

And I let you just BE

You swam

You rolled

You ran in circles

You dove in

You ran along the hard bank

And if you could have used your words

They'd have been

Sprinkles of delightedness

Wrapped inside giggles...

23 February

Oh yes

Special Mud Mask indeed!!

Look how happy you were

Those days

When Dry Creek

BEcame

Mud Creek

And I let you

Go BE a dog

Makes me smile

Just remembering...

22 February

That

My Gracie-Girl

Would

BE

Impossible

21 February

For such a  Smiley Girl

You sometimes make

The most

Gruesomely

Looooooooooong

Faces

oh

me

oh

my

20 February

Sometimes

I 

Forget

Just

How

Beautimous

You

Are

&

Always

Were

19 February

This was your first time

In the water

In Lake Tahoe

And it was MY first time

Realising that

Tahoe water actually IS

Blue.

18 February

People are always asking

When they see my strangely 

Spotted Tongue

HOW ever did THAT happen?!

And all I can DO is shrug

Smile

And let them BE awed!!!

17 February

Never

NOT Once

Were you ever fooled

Or caught NOT paying attention

To

The Littlest

Details of Life

Going on round about you.

16 February

BEing able to enJOY

myself

by myself

Is truly one of Life's

greatest

lessons...

15 February

Seriously?!

DO you REALLY 

Like

How things taste?

Red rocks

Sticks

Pinecones

and Now

Frisbees?!

14 February

You WERE so funny

You are STILL so funny

How you insist

Persist

And simply DO NOT

Give Up

On any time schedule

BUT

Your Own...

13 February

I remember this day in my Life

The day I discovered

The Frisbee

and...

Though I still cannot catch one

I love watching

As other dogs DO...

12 February

I don't understand this!!!

Won't even pretend I DO

My eyes are

Big

&

Brown

But 

NO WAY

Are they

Or

Were they

EVER

BLUE

11 February

I've grown a LOT

Since this photo

But I still have

This LOOK

Whenever

I've been

Woke

Up

10 February

If U R

Then

Could 

You 

Come 

Closer

9 February

I love to stretch

To touch

To blend in

And BE part of

My World

8 February

Life Is...

Fascinating

Curious

A little strange

Very funny

[the way human beans DO it]

And

Someplace

I'm

Glad 

To

BE...

7 February

Sleeping

Snoozing

Resting my eyes

Whatever you or I 

Call it

It's simply

Wondrous

Refreshing

And

Delicious

6 February

It's fun to play

To imagine this

Blue neon ME

Who I am 

Most certainly 

NOT

5 February

People ALWAYS comment on my face

And my smile

BUT...

There is another face

One that "people" don't see

Yet one I have

Far more frequently than you'd guess

And...

I have been making it for

A Very Long Time!!

4 February

We all start out smaller

Perhaps BEcause it is all we can manage

And we grow bigger

As we come to BE able to manage a bit more.

Bigger isn't necessarily better or more

Or even any sort of improvement on our original self

It's just the way Time does things

And our real selves don't disappear

BEcome dust that flies away

Those smaller BEfore selves

They just find a pocket inside to ride along in.

3 February

Imagination

Simple

BE

Wherever

You

Imagine

Yourself

BEing

Yes!!!

2 February

I know it's silly

But I also know you're like this, too

A certain number

A word

A phrase that means more to you

Than you can easily explain...

That is Twenty-Seven

27

ME

1 February

I know I am NOT 

Scary

Intimidating

Or EVEN

Dangerous

BUT...

I surround myself

And everyone else

With some powerful

LOVE