Thalia looks up and snaps the muses from whatever beachball thoughts are bopping back and forth. “Loooook!” Across the lawns and dry retaining pond bed, a larger than life flamingo floatie bobs and nods.
Did it wink?
Nia blinks with a sharp intake of breath. An unrealized childhood wish feels… vicariously fulfilled.
A few steps down the road Calliope notes a bunny’s long, translucent ears backlit by hazy sunshine. “Quenched and thirsty… what a beautiful contradiction.”
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
~ Audre Lorde
T-shirt: “My anesthesiologist told me I could be rendered unconscious with gas or whacked with a paddle. It was a classic ether/oar situation.” 😁
As life has progressed for me, I’ve become more comfortable discovering my own contradictions.