August 29, 2024 – A

All we need is a sounding board.
We all need a sounding board.
Someone who can hear what we have to say
and encourage us to keep talking 
until WE hear what we have to say.

When WE hear what we have to say,
it changes everything.

So. We can write it out, as I do here,
to you who are serving as my sounding board.
I am writing as though you are listening,
and you can do the same thing
to imaginary sounding boards,
just saying what you have to say,
several times a day,
clarifying it as the day wears on,
so that you are clear yourself
as to what you are saying,
and are able to reflect on that
until you come to new realizations
which produce a shift in attitude
and orientation
resulting in mid-course corrections
and adjustments
creating mild to dramatic differences
in the way you live
just because you took the time
to hear what you have to say,
in a regular and reliable way
throughout each day.

I listen to myself at night,
ranting and writhing at terrifying
possibilities and threatening turns in the road,
saying only, "I wonder what I will do about that,"
and "I wonder how I will handle that,"
and "What will ever come of that,"
and by morning everything is all clarified
and I am ready to do what is called for
in each situation as it arises,
having prepared myself for the absolute worse
throughout the night.

Makes the day a breeze,
getting it all said at night.