“You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!”

-Rumi

I find the diamond necklace

In the scramble up a chimney

to a summit block

and friends

In the easing of slight nausea

as I descend to 10,000 feet

In the full body wag

of the creek over rocks

In the sight of a wild rose

and the rush of my dad

posing by a rose for Mom

backpack on his 70 year-old back

His goofiness

His steadfast neediness

The sight of a Shooting Star

and hours later humming

"Don't you know that you are a shooting star

Don't you know? Woah, yeah!"

And feeling it must be me

In sunlight on my face

daydreaming on the narrow gauge train

I reach up and feel --

Yes. Necklace.

Triathlete & Teacher