Don't trust anyone over thirty.

"Go ahead, push the button."
Click
"Done."
Later that day
Dame Judy Dench says
"Listen
to this song."
Helen Mirren calls
from the kitchen
"Coffee
is almost ready."
Gaia whispers
"Come
walk with me."

Eudaimonia

What would it take?
An acre?
The right tools?

A hand from the other side of the planet.

Friendly and
knowledgeable
he helped get
the job done.

No explanation needed.

Nearly every time I
talk to, or spend time
with my kids, their friends and better
half's
I come away feeling
good.

Ease into the day with some
easy evaporation.

Part two.

Work guy who, in his car, uses
the go straight lane
to get ahead and then cuts
into right turn only
lane at the last second
did it again this morning
but wait
in work he ran by
me in the hallway
to get to the coffee machine
first.
I could not make that up.
Luckily there is more
than one stall in
the bathroom so he
didn't race me there.

"That dream of getting it right,
the way other people have done it,
it's the dream of correcting the past,
and it's powerful and seductive but futile."
Cary Tennis

Heavy rain,
low glowering clouds,
followed by bright blue
sky with white
cumulus.

It is hard to write anything
about divorce without
sounding
bitter or Pollyanna.
There were struggles and wonders
before
and
after.

Past beyond reach

That ship has sailed,
Horses are out
of the barn,
the train has left the
station
and time paradox
keeps my
grandmother safe.

How to end a phone call

"Have to
go,
I have a headlight
ready to
come out
of the oven."

Ornery.

Red squirrel in
grey recycle bin this morning.
I don't need to be forgiven.
Screw that.
August is here
and the heart wants what
it wants.