creating community
a point is alone,
a line has purpose,
a geometric figure enlarges into meaning,
a web can create community,
I imagine being my granddaughter
and how she is making sense of becoming adult
in a world where the barbarians
have moved past banging at the gate
and have been allowed into power,
she is finding a way forward
to play by the rules that still work,
to build a community of friends,
to develop her own skills of understanding and expression,
she and her university have chosen each other,
and she is ready to move
within the web available to her,
I trust her heart, her sense of self,
her commitment to being true to who she is,
and finding her way forward,
despite how lost it is possible to be,
she will make a difference in the world
and will work to build community,
that blessed community that calls to us
even when we feel lost,
even when we feel despair,
Izzi will find a way,
Izzi will find the ways,
to create within the webs that call to her,
she will be of love and hope
and she will create community
with what is accessible to who she is
and to what she builds with her choices,
even within this broken world we still labor to fix.
by Henry H. Walker
August 6, ‘26
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