Step to your own heartbeat

Not unlike the trees thriving in a forest

They appear in your garden

The colors and little faces of home that pull at your heartstrings

For you to sprinkle waters of knowledge

And prune and nurture

And germinate the seeds

Of positively finding out

What it means to be......HOME with one's SELF

Heart. Home

Individual, one, same

Heart is Home

Together, Apart. Always Home

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THE ARTIST

Brooding, the ultimate teenager, who makes lovely drawings

Yet think that they are never perfect.

So, she discards them

Secretly I rescue and save and salvage

From the anger heaped and crushed pile

the art she dismisses

She will be needing them later

For reference

I am sure

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THE WEATHER PROTEGEE

Glued to the screens

The books

Anything weather

Einstein like

Intent on solving the world's climate problems

Forgets to eat or drink

Needs a gentle nudge

Lost in the translation of E=mc squared of nature

Trying to convert matter to energy

And energy to matter

Able to answer any question posed

of tornados and storms and earth's tectonic plates

Given the right tools

Mother nature, watch out

He has set his sights for you

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THE ENIGMA

The youngest

A born leader

Inquisitive, bossy

"Let's pull the floorboards up, so I can see where the pipes start,

where they are connected

and where they ultimately end"

Pulls everything apart

Shreds important documents

To understand how the shredder works

Architect? Engineer? Soccer player? Entrepreneur?

Time will tell

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Home, are the memories of their steps to survival

of the intricate nuances of navigating from baby stages

to toddler

to childhood

to teenage angst

And, the deep abiding fear of young adulthood

Releasing them into the metaphorical jungles of life

HEART. HOME. SAME

GUIDE

CHERISH

NURTURE

PREPARE

Formulate the meaning of home

In each heartbeat, they will find their own meaning of,

HOME

Home, family, friends, career, choices, responsibilities

Chosen with heart, love and kindness

Cradled in the arms of great happiness

and prosperity

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Home for me

Is instilling the meaning of individuality in me

Finding peace and tranquility in being the 'unique'

that I am created to be

It matters not where you are planted

It matters how you bloom

How you allow others around you to bloom

In your presence

And how you are remembered when absent

It matters in the values that are instilled in young minds

Preparing them for the road ahead

Smooth roads may be rocky to navigate before it becomes clear

Rocky roads may just be rocky. Overcome them.

Life can be a great big sunrise

Or a great angry raincloud

I let my heart choose

Frankly,

Some days are sunrises

Other days are rainclouds

But, mostly sunrises

I never said it was perfect

Just home, and heart

Homecoming.

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