i can't help but to take photos of the sky in front and above me.
how blue the sky is, the amount of clouds that occupy it, and how the sunlight touches everything under it,
it keeps me standing in the open in awe

it takes me another second or two to wonder
how this is the same sky i've gazed upon the year prior

i question if the view changed
or if i changed enough to realize how beautiful it is

i can feel the blessings more deeply nowadays
in the the littlest of things
like the joy in the laughs around me,
or how rewarding lemonade tastes at the day's end.

lately more than ever,
to the ones i speak to, i ask if they've been looking up at the sky
hoping they can see and feel what i do.