Stewart Acuff wrote this beautiful poem and posted it and the picture below on his Facebook page today and was then kind enough to give me permission to repost it here. Stewart lives in the West Virginia Panhandle and most every day he posts some wise words in the forms of poems and some photos. I find these helpful in getting through my days. It isn't just we get to enjoy the beauty around us, but that we have a responsibility to protect and spread and share that beauty as well, and I think that Stewart communicates that. Just as well, I look forward to the Facebook posts of the Friends of the Tug Fork in Southern West Virginia and Kentucky because they put this into practice in their own ways. I bet that you or others in your community are doing the good work as well.
Waking our world
Rising right on time in the East
Dissolving the fog hanging in the trees
Lighting the leftover leaves
The truth makes its way
Rising in its own time to light a new day
Thank you for shining truth in the darkness of lies
Thank you for your voice that sometimes cries
But never consents to quiet
Or surrenders to silence
Gratitude grows for our folks fighting for one another
Because your burden belongs to all of us
We all struggle in this moment of confusion
Hold fast following those we trust
The sun, the sum of all of us
Rising right on time dissolving the fog.
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