31 January

I suppose it's possible

I could scare you away

Make you run off

Terrify you too much

Although...

What is more likely is that

I will tackle you with love

Dare you to NOT fall in love with me

And make us friends forever...

30 January

There is so much to know

So many curiosities and mysteries

And while it may seem odd

To YOU

I find my mouth the most wondrous discovery tool!!!

29 January

When I lean into

Anyone

Anything, even

In the certain way I DO

I am like the great gas pump

Filling whatever or whoever

With all my love

To energise and encourage

Their hopes and dreams.

28 January

It's good to taste things

And know them

Like the taste of salt

In the ocean

That reminds me

DO NOT DRINK

This water, please

Or...

27 January

Born on Easter Sunday

A penchant for hopping

And my earliest days

Spent round these deer

I suppose it's no wonder

I love the whole World

Exuberantly

Certain we are all of us

One BIG glorious family.

26 January

In my BEginning days and months

I was like most little girls

Well, most furry 4-legged girls

I imagined myself the Queen

I ruled and let others serve me

All of it most benevolently

Mind you...

Yet when I was a year old

A long while AFTER this photo was taken

I met a man who discouraged my pinecone snacks

My sticks that I loved shredding

And pretty much all my time-passing pleasures.

He was working with me to bring out something else

Something unique in ME

The ME he called:

Princess Gracie!!!

25 January

I love my face

The same face

I have Now

Only bigger

More filled-in

Or filled-out

And white

NOT that I am old

It's just gone white

Perhaps for good reason

To remind the World

I am NOT a puppy

I just play one in Real Life

Love,

Gracie