Dive! Dive! Dive!

Dive! Dive! Dive!

Getting some bottom time

Photo by Author

Recalling the last time I sported a BC and regulator — newest dive buddy a pure natural — tilting backwards off a little dingy boat into the Caribbean Sea. Or the time before — confronting a fisherman anchored to the protected reef — Captain, I am ready; give me the sign.

Dive! Dive! Dive!

Knife made ready — sinking to the bottom like a torpedo released by a sub — locating the anchor and cutting the line. Anchor as a trophy — adding to the Captain’s collection — a sense of fulfillment in saving the reef that day.

With groupers, jewfish, and various sharks — none the threat more than lack of human thought — piercing the heart of a local reef. The memories — logged for future gaze — warm my spirit, thinking that today is the day.

Today, I return to the sea — bottom time guaranteed — two boat dives as usual. Camera-ready — a sense of home calls me to the depths of the ocean floor.

~Ani Po

Much gratitude for those who take time to read, ponder, and allow the inner workings of self to come forward. Grateful for the feedback, love shared, and, more importantly, the Dance with Inspiration. Deep Peace.

Joseph Lieungh

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Just Another Day


Just Another Day

Or an other day, our daily choice

Superior Falls taken by Author

Another day or an other day — we get to choose from our first breath and every step along the way. We can remotely move or consciously choose. Remaining the same or altering reality with singular thoughts.

A master painter looks to the brush, paints, and canvas to convey a message. Trapped within constructs of reality, released with a single breath. Upon the Canvas — single strokes of pain, gladness and everything in between.

Colors blend or remain incompatible until the end. Vision unnoticed — often just before completion of tapestry found in a single breath, a thought, vision for what might be — hidden beneath life’s surface.

We share our uniqueness with Great Mystery and Mystery returned. With joy, gladness, pain, and suffering, we express our world as eyes interpret our Canvas of Life. We give and receive at the beginning and end of another day.

Repetition or interchanging, interweaving each diurnal course — we get to choose. Whether forty-eight years of self or thirty years of togetherness, today is our day to shine, paint, sing and dance to colors — melodies from the heart.

Just for today, we will have another day, or we shall make An Other Day.

~ Ani Po


Much gratitude for those who take time to read, ponder, and allow the inner workings of self to come forward. Grateful for the feedback, love shared, and, more importantly, the Dance with Inspiration. Deep Peace.

Joseph Lieungh

Photo by Javardh on Unsplash