Infallibility
Month: October 2021
Bunny Tale
This and Other Realities:
Bunny Tale
When our two children were ‘wee folk’, my family had a special visit one magical Easter morning.
That day, the snow was still about 5 comforters thick on the garden and surrounding ground where we lived in a cozy, two-storey ‘doll house’ in Northeastern Ontario.
As I drew back the heavy curtains covering our large living-room windows, I delighted to see the snow sparkling brightly in the morning light. White lattice panel inserts added ‘old world’ charm to view through those modern windows.
Laughter filled the house. Alissa and Aaron were up early that morning to hunt for the Easter Bunny gifts of sweet chocolate eggs hidden in, under and around so many objects in every room. Soon, little hands and faces were smeared with chocolate happiness.
Looking out the window, we discovered a wondrous, timely sight. There, in the freshly fallen snow were the distinctive tracks of a ‘Bunny’ who had sometime earlier hopped out of the nearby wilderness, then crossed the frozen garden to stop directly in front of our window. The tracks then turned back in the direction of the wilderness. Why it went to that spot was not evident. A delicious little mystery to savour…
If there’d been any doubt as to their Easter chocolate benefactor, it melted away as the children peered out at those clearly unmistakeable tracks.
A little voice said, “How did it get inside, Mommy?”
“That’s a secret,” I said with a chuckle as my husband chuckled too.
(A true story retold October 28, 2021)
Thank you Mother Nature!
Shelley Wilson
Infallibility
Infallibility
May we never put ourselves or another
in an airless Box of Infallibility-
no space for error or growth,
no evolving understandings,
no letting go of lesser truths for greater-
no space for truths of divine dichotomies
or two seeming opposite truths of humanity
when understood, in synchronized harmony
like two eyes, left and right, with peripheral vision
and the greater vision of detached inner sight
having its own perspectives expanding
with higher and wider understandings.
May we never cage ourselves or others
in Adorned Antique or Modern Boxes
filled with histories of Infallible Words
and no space to breathe, to change,
no updated information allowed,
no room to change and grow
beyond the small World we know.
May we free ourselves and others
from slavish subservience to symbols and sounds-
(like those binding contracts, oaths and vows
where wrongs can’t be undone)-
those tools of written and spoken languages,
those instruments of old and new rules to obey,
those conveyers of old stories told even today,
whether benevolent, helpful or irrational, irrelevant.
May we all be free in the Spirit of Life, Freedom Itself,
through our actions, through our words,
throughout our evolving World and Beyond.
May we find and honour our truths,
leaving Infallible Words behind.
August 10, 2021
Shelley Wilson
Heart To Heart
Sunlight Through Raindrops:
Heart To Heart
I know you’ll miss
my tender kiss,
my warm embrace,
my aging face,
my laughter
and my tears…
after all these years.
Though Life moves on,
true Love is strong
and carries on-
the end is not the end…
Love Magnetizes
and Life Surprises…
We shall meet again.
October 28, 2021
Shelley Wilson
Poem From November 2001
Flowerpoet 
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