Today's Reality

What! What is the theme?

Reality?

What is that!?

To deal with reality when sad, mad or even sometimes glad is not necessarily a favorite task...

Unless of course, it’s a good hot cup of coffee after a busy day.

Two hands warmed against a favourite mug;

sweet coffee, almost too hot, warming mouth and throat.

(I just about said ‘innards’ but thought that might sound crass.)

And then there’s comfortable ‘wear around the house’ clothes and slippers.

Now that’s a manageable reality.

Reality shifts and slows, anchoring today’s world.

Someone once said that reality is always hard,

but softness created in one’s own world is just as real.

Reality forever plays at fingertips and footsteps.

The hard realities of life may always be hard and may always be difficult to accept, but can be softened around the edges with kindness, laughter and tears.

Hard heart shells erode and crumble making room for new growth.

“Reality is one of the possibitiies I cannot afford to ignore.”

~ Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers