America We Talk About It

Summer Journals — August 8 2017

— every day of the week. It is not easy. First I had to learn. Over

decades — to take care of myself. Are you listening. I had to

learn. I had to gain, pebble by pebble, seashell by seashell, the

courage to listen to my self. My true inner self. For that I had to

push you aside. It was not easy I had pushed aside my mother

my father my self in that artificial stairway of becoming you to

be inside of you — after years I realized perhaps too late there

was no way I could bring them back I could not rewind the

clock. But I did — I could do one thing. I could care. Now we

— are here.