Who Cares - What Matters
Grant Snider over atIncidental Comics
reminds us:“The stories we tell ourselves shape our reality. We may try to box ourselves in, but we’re much more expansive and multifaceted than we think. Maybe if we tried to count our sides, they’d approach infinity—like a circle.”
(My thanks to Grant Snider.
And Happy Ongoing New Year to YOU!)
I saw an old Jesus
Walking through
A crowded waiting room
In a place
no one wanted to be
He Shuffle passed me
In faded, wrinkled pajama bottoms
And a lifeless gray T-shirt
Sipping on a stained Styrofoam
cup of coffee
He floated to a pause
In awe of the brightly colored fish
Swimming around a shiny but finger smudged aquarium
And they seemed to multiply
Wildly in a flurry of surreal color
that eyes could barely focus
and imaginations dare to envision
A Hand Out
became a Life Raft
My ice water took on a different taste of Merlot
that left a warm glow which seemed to illuminate within me
An ember that glowed
warmed
without incinerating
With a mere ever so light touch of his fingertips
Or a soft gaze of his eyes
One by one we were
metamorphosized
And then in a much
quicker than the blink of an eye
and way less subtle than the distinct note
from a shiny trumpet
There was a suddenness
Of difference
I not only forgot why I was there
I was in fact
No longer there
If you could change your life forever,
just by taking a
S P E C I A L
Capsule a day. . .
What would be in it?
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, N O. . .
We’re not talking about any special concoctions of potions
or that you could pick up at drug store with a prescription,
or worse–on the street. . .
NO. . .
what would you Capsule up to bring you
H a p p i n e s s
S a t i s f a c t i o n
C o n t e n t m e n t
W o r t h
E n t i t l e m e n t
F u l f i l l m e n t
P e a c e
C o n f i d e n c e?
I m p o s s i b l e ?
P u r e F a n t a s y ?
F o o l i s h n e s s ?
Seriously, you can’t put any ingredients in a Capsule that could guarantee
E V E R L A S T I N G
L i f e C H A N G E S, r i g h t?
Hmmmm, maybe if we had enough money?
Hmmmm, maybe if we never got sick?
Hmmmm, maybe if we were in the right relationship?
Hmmmm, maybe if. . .
Wow—this is no small thing
I M A G I N E
that’s what you’re doing right now,
aren’t you?
What’s the
E N C A P S U L A T E D S E C R E T ?
You do understand, everyone has an opinion. . .
You do understand, there’s been plenty of studies. . .
You do understand,
ADVERTISERS
spend Ga-Zillions betting you’ll be looking for the
NEXT GUARANTEED BIG T H I N G. . .
“WANTS are almost insatiable,” claimed President Herbert Hoover’s report on the economy, published, literally just months before the 1929 Crash. “One want satisfied makes way for another. . .blah, blah, blah, B L A H!”
Pssssssssssst:
What’s the one thing that makes you H A P P Y?
I’ve come to understand,
FOR ME
I’m the most happiest when I’m making others the happiest. . .
Maybe it’s because I’ve seen it
M O D E L E D
for me countless times over
the past twenty-plus years of doing Hospice Care. . .
I sometimes feel like I’m working in a Comedy Club. . .
Some of the H A P P I E S T people
I’ve ever been around
are those who have had incredible life-ending, terminal diseases
who have shown me now that there lives are coming
NOT TO AN END
but to a N E W N E S S
not many ever Begin or ever Experience. . .
I’m the most happiest when I’m making others the happiest. . .
After making my Extra Shot Breve Latte at Starbucks,
she asked me how I was?
“Better walking out than walking in,” I said.
She laughed, smiled and said, “Well, I’m glad.”
I asked it straight out,
“ARE YOU HAPPY?”
She smiled back and said,
“Yeah. . .yeah, when people like you come in and make us HAPPY!”
P A Y D A Y
Now. . .
it’s not enough to put that in a capsule,
bottle it,
market it. . .
You’ve got to swallow IT. . .
check that. . .
IF IT’S INSIDE OF YOU. . .
it never leaves and more—
it’s not only everlasting/ever life-changing. . .
but it’s severely contagious. . .
C A T C H I T
Oooooooooops. . .
There is
N O C U R E !
I T ‘ S T E R M I N A L
(But ohhhhhhhh, how you’ll be h e a l e d !)