sí, sé

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What’s the best way to explore a new city?
The best way to explore a new city is to explore an old city with a new amigo.

Once upon a time, in Chicago…I studied law and poets…time felt both right and wrong.

Are we not asked to seek
What we are built to find
Love the Author of love
All our heart, soul, and mind

With hope and sound resolve
My plan? To stand my ground
Oh such life yet to live!
Time neither lost, nor found

Warrior, you — agreed
Set aside, I — indeed
Sacred, your grail…now go!
Conqueror, yes…I know

Photo Credit: Lisa; Fiery Photography LLC

#Chicago
#Home
#SlipAway

Spelunking: A Haiku

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What are some life hacks that you practice?

I hack life by observing — both subconsciously as well as intentionally — the widespread race to the bottom…the race to the path of least resistance. The hack in this: I cannot help but to move in the opposite direction.
In Tennessee, once, for example,
I noticed, then thought:
Oh, West Prong of Little Pigeon River, I see your courage, embracing the pit downstream.

The cowardice flow

O’er which I navigated

As I swam in truth

Ol’

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If the salary was the same, what job would you be doing right now and why?

It took me a less than a split second to answer this question. Regardless of whether the salary was the same, I’d go back 40 years and become a member of our U.S. Air Force, rather than have allowed myself to be talked out of it. The reasons are for God and Country.

I see you
Shrouded, but standing
Never for naught,
Reminding me
All I was taught to do
Admonishing
There is still more that is true

I pray for you
Storied…strong, be
Herald in healing,
I ask for thee
Glory, revealing the fight!
Unfolding
Until all know The Light

Video Credit: Lisa Mae, Fiery Photography, LLC; “Ol’ Glory”

Climate Change

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Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you.

…that time Saint Logic showed up and I didn’t keep walking, tho’….

Hear, hurricane,
Once perfect calm
Find once again
The Summer balm

Such stormy sea
‘Tis all a lie
Follow the grace
Of the mind’s eye

Logic, the friend
Protectorate
Whose docent-light
Truth, bezel-set

Aegean green
Ambient air
And stalwart scent
Will find you there

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com, “Saint”

Lo!: A Haiku

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What book could you read over and over again?

Less of a mere book, and more of a sacred text, I do read The Bible over and over again — sherlock that I am.

It will be by fire

Becoming by burning, lo!

Refined…so, ready 

Video Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com;
Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park

Covered: A Haiku

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When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

When I was five years old, I wanted to be protected — both then, as well as when I grew up. God has seen to it. And, He’s provided poetry, too. ✅

What myst’ry am I

Shadow, that you and The Light

Join and wish to solve

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com; “I Got You”

All-in

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What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

We all have secret skills — for some of us, they’re born of adversity. I secretly grab and even steal moments of time, call them out, and showcase them, that no one forgets how important those moments were.

No such thing, I say,
A sunset
A half-heart
A wrong place
A right time
These are mere constructs of mankind

Somewhere, there’s with us,
A new day
A dream afire
A precision
A god-wink
All omnipresent…don’t you think?

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com, “MMOB”

Agent: A Haiku

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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

These days, when I sense my own negative feelings rising up, I am thankful that I long ago began building a habit that has made me quicker to take agency of those feelings than I was in years past — I own them instead of deflecting them, so I can process and disburse them.

I’ve been the pilot
Of many a flight of thought
Bound for no-man’s land

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae; FieryPhotography.com

Chef’s Kiss: A Haiku

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What’s your favorite thing to cook?

As someone who looks around and finds more questions than answers, my favorite thing to cook is the status quo…the pot that I’m all-too-content to stir.

As if from Eden
Essences of truth remained
Thus, I hearkened back

Lisa Mae: Cook, Noticer, Recollector

Mankind: Your Haiku

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Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

An attraction close to home that I still haven’t gotten around to visiting is my wounded, yet deserving, inner-child — but her insight and excellent uppercut keep calling me in a perfect-pitch voice that sounds cello-like, and fighters and cellos are my favorite, so….

Each time that I dream
You go — taken by free will
You leave and don’t fight

Video Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com