SOUL SCENERY

Tomorrow is Halloween, Happy Halloween!  It is also the 31st Sunday in OT.  No, not Overtime.  Ordinary Time.  A little joke-- I need some levity after last week.  And a change of soul scenery.

I love stained glass windows.

While looking for jack-o-lantern images for my Halloween blog, I came across this wonderful image of a stained glass pumpkin.

I wondered why I was so drawn to this image?

Then I remembered a Victorian Guest House I stayed at in the Florida Keys.  I wrote a poem about that guesthouse.  'The Guest House at the End of the World' was the original title I gave to the poem.  Later, I would change the title to the actual name of the Guest House-- The Chelsea House. 

Now I'm changing it back.

And I've shortened the poem to better reflect where I am in my journey today.  I hope you or someone you love takes this as happy permission to change, reclaim, or re-name something you need to. 

The old conch house

It welcomes all

I calls and draws a few...

Stained glass pains

From rosier rowdier reckless times

Brandy, bric-a-brac, and wine

The windows still open--

only

time

is

still

stolen.

Cb, 1990 Parry Sound

 

Image credit pinterest.com
The image also reminds me of Gabbie's pumpkin painting!

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