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And Here We Are At 65

September 20, 2022 by Perez 2 Comments

Greetings hip cats , and here we are at 65.

On this day I wanted to share 3 poems – poems of wisdom and beauty.

Who know where the road will lead us – only a fool would say.

The road is long with many a winding turn.

Time goes by and in a blink of an eye –

Here I am at 65 – strong , creative and living in the moment.

Kindness 

Naomi Shihab Nye – 1952 – Wikipedia

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.

Wild Geese 

Mary Oliver-1986

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

 

Colors
Perez – 1987-
all of the colors
they live inside of me
all of the colors
they come set me free
red blue and indigo
that’s the way to go
all of the colors
the color of 20
Lord its wild free
the color of 30 – 40 that is me
the color of 50 wisdom and peace
the color of 60
the color of 60
wisdom they hold
they have the power to really let flow
music and colors a secret society
all of the colors, all of the colors, all of the colors
live inside the breeze

 

I will stay busy , active, focus , sing , cook, write , and share.

 

 

Here are some images of an opening I recently attended at Skarstedt gallery of Eric Fischls work – I love his work as well as his wife’s April Gorniks work as well.

 

– Stay well, enjoy things and support the arts, I will leave you with this amazing song that surrounds me and runs through my veins this day the 65 year around the sun and the lessons the beauty I have seen as I travel through time – One of my best friends, a jazz singer, Anita Wardell – Anita wrote some amazing lyrics to a Pat Metheny song.   Listen to it here on Soundcloud – xoxo Perez

 

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Sizzling at 65 gorgeous Jazz Sister! xxx
Anita
65 and still a HipChick! Only love, Pat 🌻❤🍾🥂🎊
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