justice and love

we were all asked today to define justice

oddly i did not speak my frst thought

i thought justice is love

perhaps i am wrong

 i do not know

as is the case in so many other things

 

but the thought of love has lead me to think today

 of how one i knew expressed love

 and this i will share

 

trips to the library

countless hours reading to us

asking us if we wished to eat now

or wait for my father to come home

( now here is a lesson, we were not forced to wait

it was a choice and always worth the wait)

for teaching is love………..

wonderful meals

planned and unexpected trips

 to the mountains

to the desert to follow the fault lines

( oh san andreas you are a mystery still )

 to the beach to listen to the ocean

and build sand castles

and driftwood fires

after thinking of these

and many more things

 

 i found her definition of love

putting others before ones self.

 

 not a bad definition really

not bad at all

enough to think about

for years