Advice

I spent a lot of time playing games growing up.  Monopoly (surely), but also Mah Jongg and checkers, hopscotch and foursquare.  Outside of solitaire, usually the games required other people playing too.  I think of all the things that are so much better with the input of others (as if I have all the answers!).  When I think to ask for that input, it is often hard to listen.  So I give myself credit for asking, and work on the listening part.  Today I see the neurologist to go over the second MRI.  Last night I got a call saying I could do the internship I have set up for the fall, Right Now.  Hmmm.  Hmmm.  I am asking this morning for time to consider the possibility.  Play Monopoly for a few nights.

When I ask for advice

I really do think I want it,

Then I find myself with questions

About most of the bits.

When it doesn*t line up

With my particulars,

I give myself credit

For asking.

Listening?

Fully listening?

Not so much.

But late at night

Advice plays a board game

In my head,

Like Monopoly

Passes Go,

Collects $200.

The particulars play along

One is the race car

One the thimble.

New possibilities

Emerge.

I consider buying Boardwalk

Park Place

Even the Utilities.

I consider things

I never would have thought

On my own.

And it really doesn*t matter

Who has the most property

In the end.