The poet asked:
What is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

The inner critic replies:
Things are what they are.
Can’t change much now.
Don’t even think about it.

The writer-soul contradicts:
What changes shall I make TODAY?
The possibilities
are exhilarating.

For, in the end,
one’s wild and precious life
is all about
craftsmanship

and
belief.

The cover of my daily planner

–with gratitude for the late Mary Oliver and her poem, The Summer Day–