journal entry by Stephen John Kalinich

I love to go down town

and walk the streets in the day time .

Do you ever go to the Central market?

I go there and sit or just watch people.

Ride the Angels flight

observe

walk miles hike the city streets

walk to the end of Grand

make a left

go up Sunset

i see the people pushing the shopping carts

the discarded whiskey bottles.

I walk past the Music Center

and grasp the immensity

of little things.

I just look at the sky.

I am at the Beach

so much of the time

and in nature

but I am learning the beauty of the city

the museums

the libraries

the sweep of it

the Union train station the buses

where people go to many destinations.

Once in awhile

a painting grabs me

a sculpture

a face on the street

and i see my face in it

and the face of everyone.

At night

I walk among the tall buildings

near the library

and feel the pulse of humanity.

A throbbing Los Angeles.

I am grateful   to be alive.

Sometimes i do nothing

but it is exhilarating.

i slow down and for a moment

feel life as life

a living breathing poem

and a serenity passes through me

and it feels good

for an instant

the pain leaves my body

and I face my fears

and love these little steps

of the journey.

Peace

Stephen John Kalinich

Foto by L. K. Thayer

© 2011

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