Struck

I am often struck by time and life, by things happening simultaneously that do not match up.

Right now someone is being born while someone is dying. My dog delivers his toy to my lap while someone remembers a pet long gone. It is nighttime here, daytime there. A relationship is ending and another is just beginning.

I am struck how a day, a moment can hold some many different emotions, can hold so many different memories, can be the most important day in hundreds of people's lives.

Sometimes life knocks me over with stuff like this.

Cheesy, perhaps, but it is true.

Life knocks me over with its humor, cruelty, simplicity, connection, joy. 

I don't have some big epiphany about this. I don't even have nice sounding words, phrases to describe it.

I just have thoughts today, a lot of thoughts.

On days like today, I just want to curl up with a good book and a cup of tea and let the thoughts pass on through...