If someone is copying you
Remember thereupon
Anyone can find the switch
When the lights are on*
Lemn Sissay

If you opened an old can of pork and beans and found a genie inside who said – Boy it is great to be out of that can!! Thank you! In return I would like to release you from your can. Would a feeling of aliveness be enough?**
Lynda Barry

Every morning with my journaling,
I gather texts from many
books and blogs,
I’m ceaselessly fascinated by what
can emerge
from bringing together different texts in
various permutations.

Here’s the story today’s tell me:
I hadn’t realised I was in a can
for so many years –
After all,
There was a whole world in my old tin –
But when a genie sprung my lid,
I discovered a far bigger world of seemingly
endless ideas and brighter possibilities –
A world in which everyone
has the capacity to be a genie in some way
to others.

*Lemn Sissay’s let the light pour in;
** Lynda Barry’s What It Is.