May 05, 2024 – A

Maintaining our balance and harmony
is remaining square-up with our life.
Aware of the forces of destabilization
and rolling with the rhythm of the waves
on the wine-dark sea.

I laugh as I write that
because it sounds as though
it can be done.

The fact of the matter
is that we are swept away
again and again by things like
being out of coffee
or losing electricity for a day.

The people in Gaza or Ukraine
would love to have what we can't stand.
No worse that what we can't stand
would be my hope for the entire cosmos.

But the coastal areas of the southern states
are facing a hurricane season
for the record book
with higher seas than anything 
ever experienced there.

Going to be dicey.

The next generation or so
is going to have plenty of practice
dealing with things they don't want to deal with.

Moving out now might help,
but where to go with a guarantee
of smooth and easy
is not a smooth or easy call to make.

The future is coming and it's a bear.

It is a good idea to take our attitude 
in for an adjustment now--
if we can get an appointment.

If not, we will have to settle for 
making do with what we do not want--
with a life civilization was supposed
to keep away.

Well. 
"Here we are, now what?"
Isn't bad for a mantra.
And it is for sure
that we will all be amazed
at what we have within
we never knew existed.

We come from good stock.
Our ancestors all dealt with things
worse than the worst inconveniences 
we are likely to face.

I'm betting on us making the adjustments
and being just fine.
Particularly if we remember to laugh a lot.

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