What makes a good life?

‘the provisional life’. A way of living that feels like we’re waiting in the wings for the real thing to start.

Choice

There isn’t a right answer.

There just isn’t. The game show

where the bells ring and the points

go up and the confetti falls

because you got the answer

is a lie. The preacher who would assure you

of how to attain salvation

is making it all up. The doctor

who knows just how to fix

what ails you will be sure

of something else tomorrow.

Every choice will

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But when we allow expression (through voice, through body, through presence) we remind ourselves that emotions are not threats. They are signals.

"The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity." - R.A. Lafferty