Fireworks
In a way, it was kind of his night. Independence Day celebration + 9-year-old boy + adults with fireworks money = Opportunity!
Because you have to test,
have to experience things with all of your senses,
as close as you dare.
You need to observe others displaying both prudence
and risk—to figure out why and when and how.
Sometimes you have to feel danger in your own hands
to learn exactly what makes it dangerous,
learn to harness and create with it,
learn to celebrate it, and ultimately to transmute it into experience and beauty.
July 18, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Love love love! I keep coming back to this one. Poetry. 😀
July 18, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Yeah, this is an awesome testimony to risk and motherhood.