While I have continued my daily writing and posting, I haven’t been posting in this space. Today seems like the day to give a peek in to what I’ve been up to. After a month of daily slice of life posting and a month of daily poems in honor or National Poetry month, in May and June I shifted to writing daily #smallpoems (thanks for the inspiration Georgia Heard!) to accompany my daily photo post on Instagram. For July, again inspired by Georgia Heard, I am writing #tinyletters also inspired by my photography and posted on Instagram.

Here is the one I wrote today in response to an egret sighting on my daily walk.

Dear Egret,

We’re both drawn to the shoreline: you to eat, me to drink in the wonders of the sea. I know when I see you that this is my lucky day. And lucky I am, day after day after day.

Neither of us is gregarious by nature, enjoying solitude and blue skies. A space for listening to the roar of ocean waves and my own thoughts far from the noise and chaos of the internet and politics.

You are a whisper of grace and natural beauty, wings that lift you and lift me above the fray. A respite, a pause, a moment of stillness.

So I can breathe and the re-enter the world with renewed strength and resolve.

Thanks for being my lucky charm.

#tinyletters#egret#luck#solitude#respite#recharge

What tiny letters might you write? Who would you send them to? Who or what needs a letter from you during the month of July?