washing dishes: a father’s glimpses

As I reflect on the last 7 days, I’m assessing what needs dilutions or concentrations of people’s inner weather.

What needs diluting is:

• bitterness
• isolation
• despair
• reflexive checking for horrendous updates, from either media: mainstream or social
• self-doubt and, its extreme perversion of, self-loathing
• parroting patriarchal and Puritanical edicts on morality in books or bed, within families or in civic institutions.

What needs concentrating is:

• connection
• celebrating good, accomplishments, feats
• homemade food
• melanin activated by sun rays or even by UV rays
• compassion
• discerning where to
• spontaneity: phone calls, play, basking outside
• following the moon as traverses across the sky.