Get used to puzzles.
Get used to changing plans.
Become accustomed
to the tender place
between grief and praise,
but especially grief.
Get used to hope
as a choice
not as a feeling.
Wash your hands.
Required reading:
Grace Lee Boggs.
Thich Nhat hanh.
Your grandma’s
cheeky sayings
in needlepoint.
Don’t make
too many plans,
but treat people well.
Learn how
to plant
seeds
in dying
places.
Listen to those
who have already
been struggling,
about how they
get though.
Then, refer to poetry
when nothing
else make sense.
Love a lot.
Tell people
when you care.
Hang on.
Tell the story
of every time
you’ve survived
before
and will,
again,
again,
and again.
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