All Good

January 30, 2026

All Good

embraces

with a line from Heidi Seaborn’s “What It’s Like to Fall in Love”

i fall in love today
with the snow plow driver who scrapes the blade against prospect street,
and i love the machine’s backup beep beep beep as it maneuvers in the cul de sac.
i’m in love with my weather-disrupted schedule
& even the slippery outdoor conditions’ keeping me from my morning walk.
i love the three chestnuts that sit on my desk in a small white ceramic dish
& , for no good reason, i love the lightbulb that just burned out in my study.
today I fall in love with the fruit fly that’s drawn to the light
of my laptop screen, seeking only to flit freely, only to live.

—dotty seiter

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*The Friend Who Holds Others Conversational Hostage*
detail from a larger painting; ink and watercolor pencil on paper
*Let’s Face It With Friends* series
2025

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Notes about poem and art:
• “Embraces” is the third nine-line poem posted with a neurographic sketch of a face that’s part of a subset of my Let’s Face it With Friends series. No poem paired with this subset of art friends is written with a particular sketch in mind but once I have a poem and a portrait on a page together, I look to see if I can discover any connection between them.
• Here in the neurographic neighborhood, many friends are making themselves known, not the least of whom is The Friend who takes hostages through commanding more than her fair share of conversational time. Today, I’m looking for ways to fall in love with that part of her personality! To be present to all that is in my immediate world, to practice finding my way with what is, to look for joy in all directions, to open myself to inner peace.

artist at play

invitation to write by rosemerry wahtola trommer, neurographic art, nine-line poems

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Dotty Seiter

8 responses to “All Good”

carol lee

January 30, 2026 at 8:20 am

I love the positivity of your poem. Finding good even when regular daily routines are askew. Love your friend that likes to talk! I have similar friend. I will be more patient next time we speak! Oh how I long for inner peace. Thanks for sharing your view,helping me on my way.

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  January 30, 2026 at 8:42 am
  
  Carol, I wrote this poem, “embraces,” a few days ago and was grateful to see it again this morning myself! I need all the positivity I can get these days. Focusing on finding good no matter what is life-sustaining. Thank you for your affirming comments, a welcome hug.
  
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Joyful Puttering

January 30, 2026 at 8:23 am

EVERYTHING about this post makes me smile. The poem is spot on! Let’s love everything! It’s the only way through all the noise and chaos.

I laughed when I red the line about loving the burned out lightbulb….because that just happened to me. I literally thought how wonderful it was to have used something fully until it absolutely wasn’t useful anymore. We don’t always do that. I hadn’t realized how much I loved that light bulb until now.

And the friend who holds the conversation hostage is absolutely fabulous. Yes…we need to fall in love with her too. If anything….we can quietly chuckle about her.

This may be one of my favorite series you’ve done. It’s brilliant!

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  January 30, 2026 at 8:52 am
  
  MaryAnn, thank you for shining your smiles in my direction! They provide welcome warmth and welcome encouragement on this otherwise once-again fiercely cold morning with its accompanying all-too-frequent outer noise and chaos.
  
  The chance to stand up together in loving a burned out light bulb feels powerful! Your reflecting back that you also had a light bulb burn out recently, and that you celebrated the wonder of its having lived its full useful life, has infused me with an unexpected surge of energy! (a much needed surge). I’m grateful!
  
  I’ll now move into my day with quiet chuckles instead of internally noisy negativity.
  
  Thanks for letting me know that this current series of mine is striking a chord with you : )
  
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Sheila Marie Delgado

January 30, 2026 at 10:03 pm

Gratitude, YES! So hard to remember, easy to forget. To be grateful for every little thing. Sometimes it’s easier to remember to be grateful for the big tings. The rare things. Beautiful poem, Dotty! xoxo

The minute I saw your friend, I thought persnickety neighbor on The Andy Griffith Show. LOL. She means well, but just can’t help being fussy.

Today, I loved the comfortable seat that allowed me to rest while I was out & about. The sun that warmed me on this cold day. My soft scarf that kept the chilly breeze off my neck. xoxo

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Dotty Seiter

January 31, 2026 at 5:02 am

Sheila, gratitude for your gratitude! and love for your love of the comfortable seat, the sun’s warmth, your soft scarf. The enumerating of ‘every little thing’ can be so evocative and grounding, as yours is here. Thank you!

Thank you for the LOL you sparked in me through your allusion to the persnickety neighbor on The Andy Griffith Show!

xoxo

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lolajovan

January 31, 2026 at 4:29 pm

well well well, I lost another comment to the cyber-ether! Dang! What I think I said was this: I love your practice of falling in love with things – good things, bad things, neutral things – all the things. Even the friend who holds others conversational hostage! I have been practicing your loving things discipline, and by gum and by golly it is hard but it works! Thank you for spreading your wisdom into the world! xoxo

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1. Dotty Seiter
  
  January 31, 2026 at 7:30 pm
  
  well well well, I’m finding it hard to fall in love with your losing comments to the cyber-ether, Lola. What the heck?! You are never obligated to comment but, because you so faithfully do, when I don’t hear from you, I feel concern, hoping you are ok ❤️. I’m grateful that you somehow determined that your message didn’t get through, re-commented, and now I know you are ok!
  
  Yeah, good things, bad things, neutral things—all the things … I agree, by gum and by golly it is hard but it works! For me, it is a conscious practice, not yet an intrinsic way of being. But who knows??!
  
  xoxo
  
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