Phone rings. Someone needs a referral. Custody dispute. I give them several names.
And I continue to stare.
An email. Someone wants me to review a contract of employment. I look at it. Puerto Rico? You are moving to Puerto Rico? With your partner? Wow.
In a few minutes I will pick up the phone and intrude on the lives of people who I am concerned about but I dare not disturb too frequently.
Soon I will head home. I’ll think about the idea of caring for another – when it ends, if it ends, or if it continues forever. (It does, if you want it to.)
Good-night, rock solid heroes of mine out there on the sill: Japanese owl, Polish sparrow, Florentine goose. And others...
In the alternative (if your disposition leads you to prefer the fleeting), does it last from one day to another, and does it disappear as elusively as the leaf that lands on your sill one minute and the next minute is gone?
such deep thoughts make one solid, not fleeting.
ReplyDeleteCaring for another lasts forever, so long as you do not require that it be caring for one another. I know this to be true: That one who cares is not necessarily cared for in return.
ReplyDeleteSo wise, george h. You really cannot condition caring for another (and I mean caring, with or without love) on their looking after your well-being too.
ReplyDeleteI hold in such high esteem people who know how to make this a two-way or multi-way street. Stars, in my opinion.