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No Detail Too Small 

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on June 7, 2026| 2 Comments »


 
The weather changes the beans, 
Svetlana tells me as we sit in her home.
I sip the coffee she’s made me, 
a blend she and her partner created
from five different beans that they roast
themselves. She can taste in her cup
whether the growing season was rainy 
or dry. Everything changes everything. 
No detail too small to link us to the world
of the real, to help us remember who we are. 
I am thinking of the piano player 
today in Santa Fe. As her hands
flew across the keys, passionate 
and precise, it was the way she moved
her eyebrows that stirred me,
her utter commitment and wonder 
expressed in a single arch or furrow, 
lift or frown. I am thinking of how 
my friends Don and Mindy have written 
the word wisdum on the wall in their home, 
and how all day I have giggled about it.
They can seem so trifling, the details 
that capture us, claim us, rearrange us.
I once thought redemption was something grand. 
Something costly. Unlikely. Now I believe
the lost pieces of ourselves can, in part, be 
recovered through noticing the smallest of things— 
the raising of a brow, a handwritten word, 
the treble notes in a roasted coffee bean. 

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