I am grateful today!
In it’s funny way, life continues to be beautiful - and whimsical, and shitty, and strange, and serendipitous, and monotonous, and divine
Never settling for too long into one of these chapters,
Thank God!
It should be a crime to get too comfortable.
I am grateful today -
For the people whose paths have crossed mine,
In big ways or in small,
Paths intertwined or skating on parallel lines.
Experiencing reality together
Or tucked into rest in my memory.
For those whose hands I’ve held or shoulders I’ve cried on,
For those who have gently guided me through life’s seasons -
Watching me grow and falter, and grow and fuck up, and grow yet again.
For those who have handed me a coffee that warmed cold palms for $15 an hour,
For those I’ve exchanged drunken endearments and cigarettes with in the dive bar bathroom stall.
For those I’ve kissed, hugged, danced with, laughed with.
For those who have smiled at me in the street,
For those who lent me a pencil in grade school,
And for those who put a roof over my head.
How lucky am I, for these people to have slipped, for however long or fleeting,
Into this silly little life of mine!