SOMETIMES

June 30, 2015

Sometimes someone is talkative because they've been missing their family or they feel embarrassed, awkward, or lonely
Sometimes someone is quiet because of the same feelings
Sometimes someone needs more space to take care of their body
Sometimes someone has space to take care of someone else's body and be very close to others
Sometimes someone is perceived as aloof and distant because this someone's suffering from a loss of their spouse or parent or child or best friend
Sometimes someone relates to the world with ebullient joyfulness because they're freeing themself from a domestic knot
Sometimes someone seems bossy and controlling because their loved one just received a diagnosis
Sometimes someone seems wise and dependable because they are in end stage cancer
Sometimes someone feels lonely and uncertain and they just need to share what's bubbling over
Sometimes someone can deeply soak in another's pain and help mirror their own beautiful goodness
Sometimes another's stuff isn't ours and sometimes our stuff isn't theirs
Sometimes we can be illuminated by the natural mirror between two people
Sometimes we want to slow down when everyone else is moving so quickly in a line
Sometimes we will be late and sometimes we will be early
Sometimes our mind judges and sometimes it relaxes
Sometimes we want to be in the thick of society, giving
Sometimes we need to tend to our body and withdraw
Sometimes we like ESA
Sometimes we don't
Sometimes we want to know
Sometimes we want to feel
Sometimes our mind knows are heart
Sometimes our heart feels our mind
Sometimes we feel more the "I" and sometimes we feel more the "basically good"
Sometimes we get stuck and go on judging someone based on one conversation, moment, situation
Sometimes we forget we are just trying to make sense of everything
Sometimes we forget we have always had a chance to be good again
Sometimes we forget the magic of our being
Sometimes we remember the magic of our being
Sometimes we don't want to get out of bed
Sometimes we just want our mama
Sometimes we feel our vulnerability and compassion for our world
Sometimes we let ourselves wake up and be held by our world
Sometimes we just want to be loved
Sometimes we just want to be loved by loving another
Sometimes we feel the fear
Sometimes we push the fear away
Sometimes we feel the confidence in basic goodness
Sometimes we miss home
sometimes we leave home
Sometimes we feel gratitude for the space from family
Sometimes it takes a while to trust, even longer that we might like
Sometimes we see the caring in each other's eyes and we feel the gravity of kindness