No matter how we cut it,
look at it,
size it up,
think about it,
perceive it,
etc.,
it comes down to being
immovably stuck in the Julie Andrews Dichotomy.
As Mary Poppins it is,
"Anything can happen if you let it!"
As Maria von Trapp it is,
"How do you solve a problem like Maria?"
"How do you keep a wave upon the sand?"
"How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?"
"How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?"
Which way is it?
How would Mary Poppins
solve a problem like Maria?
By letting it be, no doubt!
By changing her mind about "the problem,"
so that it becomes "no problem at all."
Only Mary Poppins could be
so grown-up!
As to let things be what they are!
Until, as circumstances beget circumstances,
they become entirely different in time,
and we wonder why/how
we ever thought they were problems at all!
In waiting it out
we change ourselves.
"Acquiescence, accommodation, compromise, Kid.
Acquiescence, accommodation, compromise."
Growing up is the solution
to all of our problems today, any day.
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