Plaid

Ah dreams.

In a dream last night

Everyone wore

A short-sleeved

Plaid shirt

Cotton

Different patterns.

I sorted them

Into categories.

So many resisted

Sorting.

I thought

I was being helpful.

Soon

I stood back

And watched.

Squirrels

Sometimes watching animals helps.

I watch the squirrels.

They own the backyard like no

Other. They own it.

Therapy is

So many things count as therapy (I think).  I woke up this morning remembering those "Love is..." cartoons.  Therapy is many things.  It depends upon the one asking and the one giving. It means learning to ask the right questions... like "Do I want help?" instead of only "Do I need help?"  Jesus was good at such questions: "Do you want to be healed?"  Me?  Need healing?  You can't be asking me this, really! How could I possibly need anything?  Me.  Do I want to be healed? I think so. Sometimes I even pay.

Therapy is for

The times we want help (really)

Sometimes we even pay.

Pain assistance

Caller ID has helped us know what calls to answer.  Most often my beloved answers any call and has conversations with strangers regarding how we might invest our money, or who we will vote for.  Neither one of us has answered the Pain Assistance calls, but curiosity may win out tomorrow.

Since coming home

We have received five calls

From

Pain Assistance.

Caller ID

Is a wonderful thing.

We have not answered

The call

Five times now.

We speculate

About who or what

It might be,

What pain

They mean to address.

We think for now

We will not answer

But perhaps tomorrow

Curiosity may win

We will see then

How we got on their list.

We will see then

What pain

They promise

To address.

High jump

Life has a way of placing hurdles, high jumps, long jumps, sometimes an endless series of stairs in our path.  I am grateful to have trainers (physical, mental, spiritual trainers).  I am also grateful to have learned, albeit in later years, to know and ask for such help.

We navigated

The first post-Easter hurdle,

Await number two.