What is the best way to 
face a disappointment?
Cry, run, scream, obsess, disappear.

Find your way along the river’s
edge, listen to the rush of water drenching
rocks.  Feel its balm over your feet.

Climb up the trail to the
mountain’s ridge.  Breathe in
the luciousness of laurel and pine.

Lay in a meadow cushioned
by pillows of wild bergamot and
rue-anemone, blanketed in the breeze.

Travel into the garden of your mind
and cut bundles of hydrangea and lilac
in fragrant grace.