A Poem from the Porch

Inspiration from my niece Fran Betlyon

Scene of a Porch Visit yesterday with my niece

To hear the related 5-minute audio file that I uploaded today as my Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa devices, please click on the play button:

Porch Visit with Fran

We hear the surf but can’t see it

We talk and listen for

what we don’t know about

each other yet.

Sometimes a pattern emerges—

a thread, a meme, a new religion

of creatives bending

toward the light and

the fury of being alive

by the ocean—

always hoping,

never walking away unchanged.

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Fran Betlyon, my niece, told me yesterday how she listens to a song over and over when it seems the song has something to teach her. That made me think about repetition as part of my own creative process and the way I learn.

AI Pin suggested it’s about creating muscle memory in the brain.

My son-in-law Josh this morning showed me a new way to serve in pickleball. I know it will improve my game, but I will need to practice it a few hundred times before it’s mine.

That’s it. Till tomorrow…