There are Miracles Still on this Planet
When the year that just had to be better than the last one fails to live up to our hopes, double down on the search for miracles.
If you started 2022 with the incantation, This year has got to be better than the last, and that is not yet evident;
If the drumbeat that reverberates in your bones is not a call to dance, but to dread;
If your dogs are antsy, your kids hate school, and you are grasping toward a dim light at the end of the tunnel, remember:
There are miracles still on this planet.
Chance meetings on a sidewalk. Tea with milk. A laughing fit with tears and stomach spasms that carries you longer than it has a right to do.
A yes from your teenager’s mouth. Touching your toes at 52; Cinnamon, honey, bananas.
Toddlers on scooters wearing helmets as big as their bodies. Hearts drawn in lattes. Me, having dogs.
There are miracles still on this planet.
Lavender bushes in bloom. A whiff of jasmine on an afternoon walk. Seeing yourself through someone else’s generous eyes.
Spitting tangerine seeds off a balcony onto forest floor, imagining its journey via some…
