Well, hello there. It's Morgan here and welcome to today's episode. Today's episode is a very special one

because I've been doing this series on the poetry of seemingly insignificant things and I've been

looking at a lot of just mundane, regular, everyday things and really going deeper with them.

And I decided to ask on my Instagram stories the other day if people wanted to submit

something that they had taken themselves that may have to spend from their everyday, ordinary,

mundane, routine, whatever worth that they would use themselves, just something regular.

You know, just it's not the most amazing, beautiful sunrise or some big moment, just a small

moment. So I invited people to DM me and I got some DMs and I had so much fun with this.

I picked three different images. So thank you to chronically Kelsey and I think Vimbi,

username Vim by M and also Tiffany Hudson.

Thank you and to everyone else who submit it as well. So I just wanted to read you the poems first.

Since this is obviously a bit of a different format than how I'm going to be sharing it in other places, I wanted to just share with you these poems.

And then I'm going to walk backwards and share with you how I got there.

So the first poem that I wrote was from what

chronically Kelsey shared, which is through every sunset and every sunrise, I am learning what it

means to be alive. I am learning to hold the tension of many things. And somehow I am learning to breathe.

And this came from looking at Kelsey's photo which was of a walk down a sidewalk and you can see the shadow and the way that

the shadow is very long in the photo it looks like it was taken at sunrise or sunset. And this made

me think about how sunrise and sunset produced these very long shadows. And oftentimes life can

be that way. We can just be moving through life and then suddenly we come across

something that feels like an ending, like the end of the day, but, you know, of course, something

even bigger. Or we come across a new beginning, something that is starting. And in those moments,

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