Illuminate

What illuminates?

A chickadee’s song, a crow’s call, on the margins of an early summer morning.

A window box full of red and white petunias, and hummingbirds buzzing, sipping on the periphery of a kitchen window – A July or January day, depending, of course, on one’s hemispheric environs.

The gift of a hug around the circumference of a big maple tree’s trunk on a scarlet autumn day –

The hug returned even more brightly illumines.

To see a loved dog on a walk with their dedicated human on a rainy spring day. Depending on how hard the rain, the human might not be smiling, but the pup almost surely is.

A bumblebee alight on the radius of a little yellow lion’s mane –

Bee working their summer afternoon shift.

Rain dancing softly on a roof to Handel’s Water Music.

A good book,

A cat’s contented purr.

Brilliant paintings in the margins of our stories,

All.