Shownotes
How often we greet each other with worries
by Maggie Devers
I went to the wilderness to escape
And there are worries there too.
Caterpillars falling from their tree
Before their chrysalis is complete
My weekend project was to save them,
But not everybody makes it—
There's a worry tied to us like an anchor,
How quickly we would sink once we stropped struggling—
We lost one to the river
A few were squished
And one got too close to the coffee pot.
That will stick with me
But I saw butterflies too,
And in a few weeks
When I'm not there to see it,
There will be more.
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