still waters do run deep

and this symposium is a shepherd's keep! I don't care how many or few look in, but I love that we can post here, comment--check those, and click to make your own, look back at archived stuff and become inspired anew. It's Mother's Day today, and I loved how Kevin Durant made use of his own symposium--the NBA and all its fans--to pass his accolades along, compelling his mom Wanda to make a modest acceptance speech of her own. She nourished her kids on a kind of mush we enjoyed in unincorporated Des Plaines--I long for that dish sometimes--and prayed for their safety, salvation, success, counting not the odds against. Happy Mother's Day, Mom--you are our MVP!

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Mother’s Day, Oklahomas everywhere

Wanda said

a mother’s dream is

seeing to her kid’s each own

Kevin spread

his mother’s word in

bringing the Podoloff home

and giving

it to Mom—Wanda

said a mother’s dream is be-

ing happy

—even when alone—

to oust obstructions and free

her each kid’s

doubts that happiness

cannot be found. Wanda said

Kevin’s dream

indeed is hers, bless

all the prayers preceding bed

bless brothers

sisters, family pets

bless obstructions as they come

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may link chainlike and

dreams so loved are never done