It Matters
Eventually, the purple on my foot will recede.
Life, Observed
Life doesn't get any simpler than when a delightful living being shares its day with you.
Let's start with the premise that life has meaning.
Like ebb and flow, peaches and cream, night and day - human and divine are perfectly balanced partners - one needs the other to be complete.
These days even the tiniest act of kindness can infiltrate my heart with a gratitude bomb.
I have been in resistive denial which is a normal coping mechanism but not a healthy one.
My mind is a bit fractured these days. It feels like I am straddling two different time lines.
I guess that makes the Universe the primo collector, gatherer, and accumulator of stuff so we come by it honestly.
At age 4, I really had no reason to welcome frightening spectres to my bedside.
I don't often approach change with delight and an open mind.
Every time I walked past that tangled mess of vampiric vine-age, it took on a deeper and deeper sinister aspect, in my mind.
And there it is. At the root of addiction is the need to escape, to not remember, to feel the freedom from emotional and spiritual pain.
It definitely feels like I am waiting for the point. What the heck was 2020 all about because, surely, there is some meaning to find there?
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