my message seems written in the sky
(or possibly on the windshield)
MB in reverse
waiting my turn
moderna booster soon coming my way.
ah – my message is in a bottle.
—
“life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.”
-gene tierney
grateful to have had my 2nd vax dose
knowing it’s not just to keep me well
but to give all who i may cross paths with
a better chance to stay well too.
—
“healing yourself is connected with healing others.”
-yoko ono
—
“we are our choices.”
-jean-paul sartre
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image credit: new yorker cartoons – roz chast
picking up chinese food late in the day
everyone wanted
the same cure
for holiday madness
restaurant was so busy
it was all a blur.
—
‘the Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.’
-lin yutang
imagine my surprise
just before undergoing
an out-patient medical test
listening to the waiver
read aloud to me
most of it
consisting of the usual
risks, percentages, side effects
somewhere in the middle
i heard:
“medicine is not an exact science.”
best liability statement i have ever heard.
—
“i am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.”
-alexander the great
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image credit: aspca.org
i went to the u of m dermo clinic
for my annual skin checkup
and remembered
just how thorough they were
when 3 different docs
checked me out.
the first one asked,
“did you know that you have some glitter stuck to your back?’
the second one asked,
“how did you get glitter in your hair?”
and finally, the third, the resident doc asked,
“did you know that you have glitter on your feet?”
i think they all imagined that i’d been to a wild party
or secretly am a dancer as my second job
i really couldn’t attribute it to working with the kinders
now that it’s summer break.
i told all of them that i wasn’t really surprised
that it’s always on me somewhere
thanked them for letting me know
and for another clean bill of health.
i think it lightened things up a bit in their clinic.
—
“i must bridge the gap
between adolescent glitter and mature glow.”
-sylvia plath
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image credit: instyle
I have my glasses on.... 