Endurance

From Brain Pickings this morning. The rest is from me.

What I could,

I changed;

What I couldn’t,

I endured.

Dorothy Vaughan

NASA mathematician

The birds in flight

On the bookshelves

Remind me

Of possibilities

Even as I sit in the living room

In the blue chair,

The walker

In front of me.

Then I read

This quotation

From Dorothy Vaughan,

An African American mathematician

In the 1940’s.

I am amazed

At her endurance.

If she could do it

So can I

So can I

So can I.

The birds continue flying

On the bookshelves.

I fly

In my own way.

I change what I can.

I endure what I must.

But always

I fly.