Dear Brave Souls: For family dinners at holiday season.
May we laugh.
May we return good to good.
May we return good to not-so-hot.
May we laugh.
May we return kind to kind.
May we return kind to cruel.
May we laugh.
May we return calm to calm.
May we return calm to flagrant.
May we laugh.
May we stay long as we like.
May we stay short if need be.
May we laugh
about how we all belong
to a family by birth,
or a family of choice,
or both…
a family inevitably made
of banditos, pirates, the winged,
the clueless, the closedmouthed,
the wicked, the shy, the introverted,
the lampshade wearers, the moaners and
groaners, the visionaries and the saints,
the bums, the hags and crazy people.
May we laugh.
There is almost nothing more poignant
than holidays
to make many of us think we might be trapped
in a beautiful, horrible, brutal, wonderous,
dark and miraculous movie…
and that the last many pages of the script
are not yet written…
that we will have to wait and see…
that we will have to live forward and see…
and… May we laugh.
with kind regards from TMV and from Dr. E
for your Holiday today.
Poem “May We Laugh” from La Pasionaria, The Bright Angel manuscript, by C.P. Estés, ©2000, 2011, Creative Commons copyright: alright to copy and repost as is, in entirity, with citation of titles and author’s name and this notice in full.