Update to an Old Maxim

All the mistakes, missteps ~

fall on my face messes 

too often accompanied by 

swathes of guilt and shame. 

You made your bed, 

    you can lie in it. 

guilt and shame dragged, 

getting heavier, harder to 

push down year after year, 

something had to change .

You made your bed, 

    you can change the sheets.

Reminded of my change as I 

changed the sheets on my bed ~

clean and fresh as sleep settles softly.

Blackened feelings washed away.

“The present changes the past. Looking back 

you do not find what you left behind.”

~ Kiran Desai,  The Inheritance of Loss

It Has Come to My Attention........

.....that today is National Love Your Pet Day. I’m not certain how I feel about being included with all pets - or that I’m even considered a ‘pet’. After all who does run this household, with efficiency and proper timing? And only one day! Are we pets just supposed to be tolerated all the rest of the time? Please! We are really just too loveable every day. Oh, that’s right, I’m supposed to be offended to be considered one of the pet continuum. Well, just don’t forget to feed and love me - and all the rest of the pets (even dogs).  

“You cannot share your life with a dog…or a cat, and not know 

perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.”

~ Jane Goodall, 

primatologist & anthropologist

(1934 - 2025)

10 More Minutes

10 more minutes 

while flutes play, 

fingers poised 

over laptop keys 

and still nothing comes 

so I will end this missive

and bid you goodnight.

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.”

“Earl Nightingale, author

(1921 ~ 1989)