I am not a believer in burying feelings, but I am a fan of re-framing. I mean, look. There’s no way around the fact that this is a colossal and traumatic thing we’re navigating right now. We can’t imagine that away.
But sometimes (like, approximately 100 times per day) (whatever a day is), I’m finding the need to re-set my expectations, articulate something in a new way, look at a situation differently.
Thus this poem, right?
Haiku 3
April 3, 2020
This thing we’re doing,
scary and isolating?
Let’s call it nesting.
Be safe and well, friends.
Breathe. Settle. Nest.
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Love this – nesting is a good thought. All birds do in the nest is rest and eat, and thus I lower my expectations to finding food and keeping things restful…
ha ha yes, exactly, this