November 25, 2023 – A

Discontent is good for the economy
and politics
as long as it doesn't spill over
into terrorist activity or war.

There is such a fine balance
between having it made
and having nothing at all.

Life itself is a fine balance.
And the pendulum is always swinging
between not enough and too much of something.
Enough is not a steady state of being
across the board
around the table.

Balance and harmony are forever 
coming and going like the tides
and the seasons,
trying our patience,
testing our will
until we cry out,
"Enough is enough!"
Of too much and too little!

We ache for things to be just right 
all the time--
and that, we hope,
is what heaven is for,
with hell being nothing right ever.

Learning to live between abundance
and deficit 
is letting things be as they are,
no matter what
for however long it takes
to get use to the idea
that this is it
and it is fine
just as it is.

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