I can tell it’s probably not going to be much of a productive day when I spend ten minutes over morning coffee trying to match each color of the sunrise to its corresponding crayon.
prose
Counterbalance
No matter how frustrating and scary everything else seems to be in this crazy world, at least there’s this: it’s pumpkin pie season!
Aegrotum sanare
Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.
Gilt
Can a good person be both a tree hugger and a book lover, when one has to be murdered to create the other?
Reformulated
Perhaps age is just youth
— old and improved!
Shadow-sweet
If beer tastes too much of cheer,
well then it borders on porter.
Morning routine
Breathe, thank, pray, rise,
Symptomatic
A maltreated body will cry out in symptoms.
Startup
Spring stirs under silent snow.
Suffering in silence
If you don’t know anyone who has it worse than you, trust this —
Summer saguaro
With fruity-fingered arms, I hug the sky.

Overdoing it
Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself
Hazardous waste
Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.