Month: October 2017

By Jim Hagarty
2013

It seems to me, life is like this. Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and Shreddies. Once in a while, Lucky Charms, maybe Cap’n Crunch. Then Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and Shreddies. Oh Happy Day: Fruit Loops! Euphoria unending: Frosted Flakes. Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and Shreddies. Then there are long stretches of granola. With honey. With nuts. With honey and nuts. With apple. With almond. With apple and almond. Granola in chunky clusters, granola loose as sand. But sooner or later, you may as well face reality, you will be sitting there at breakfast eating Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies or Shreddies. And that’s OK because they make the Fruit Loops days just all that much sweeter.

When We Are Where We Belong
2017

We ask ourselves, from time to time,
Whether we are happy or not.
But we only really know for sure
When misery takes over our thought.

Then we see, by remembering,
Wherein the difference rests.
When happy, our lives are synchronized;
Unhappy, our days are a mess.

But a simple rule can serve as a guide
When we wonder why things are so wrong:
We are happy when we have managed to be
Exactly where we belong.

And just the reverse, when life seems so hard
And we don’t know the words to our song,
It’s because we are occupying a place
Where we simply could never belong.

But the Universe is rarely in error
And will always deliver a way,
To get us back up on just the right path
Which will lead to a happier day.

-JH