Roots, streaming upwards,

Getting stronger by the moment,

As a connection becomes more obvious,

How long have I been in this wrong-heading thinking?

When I thought because I am unique, I came from a different source.

Veteran US Navy vessels at Discovery Cove, Fall River, MA

John 15:13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

To serve is a privilege, an honor, a duty.

Today, we remember this service everywhere.

The leaves are down,

In readiness for winter,

Creating a carpet of crackling, slippery, soon to be mulch,

Abstract pattern on the floor of the woods,

As the trees hunker down.

For a long New England winter.