Reinforced

Foundation/slab with steel, concrete ready. Water tower super structure suspended above.

Lakeside Organic Farm, Watsonville, California

Reinforced

3/31/10

Life's more than gratifying

when coming upon others

who reflect our magnificence

while sharing similar perspective

as form of support,

able to recognize beauty,

miracle, love, and joy

in way we do,

following intellectual, spiritual paths

that illicit emotional cohesiveness,

through laughter, tears, compassion,

and it's the latter

which bonds friendships tight,

seeing in another 'yourself',

having felt familiar wounding

expressed by story told,

the ancient human myth

born of overcoming challenges,

succumbing to many also,

tempered in failure's fire

then rising as phoenix

stronger for the severing,

healing, and scarred reminder,

though in the aloneness

of Life's hard knocks

one can doubt worthiness,

question direction, inner stirrings,

yet somehow muster energy,

inquire Truth, experiences reinforced.