“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."

"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."

"I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.” -- Oscar Wilde

find your calm. 

when it isn't there. 

when there is only stress and tension.

it is there. way back there.

find your calm. 

always, know it is there. 

the sun behind the stormiest days

the love in anger sadness and pain. 

find your calm. 

when your mind is not a safe place

know that that is not your heart.

that is your pain. inner peace is beyond. 

find your calm. 

speak to and with your heart. 

even when the connection is static.

be patient and hold space for it every day. 

find your calm.

be endlessly kind to yourself. 

forgive everything. as we will forgive all around us. 

take the time. know thyself as calm. 

these voices sound in the night like softly jingling light bulbs 

that have long retired to couches and front porches

they dangle, they creak, they perturb 

and once in a while, they light for a few seconds

only to go back at once to resting

it is easy to get caught in this momentary flash in the sky, this warmth

to wish and pray, to build pyres and temples

to coax this familiar glow and clarity to come more often

it is easier to do this all this than it is to look down to the market 

where brilliant lights glow all night, and we, by ourselves

have to risk traveling there all alone, and greater yet,

risk that the lights will not be there when we arrive