PATIENCE!

Oh dear, i began noticing about 2 months ago that no one was reading my blog posts. It turns out that that was because you were not receiving a notification about them. After umpteen attempts, it seems that the problem is fixed!! How impatient I am with computer woes -- well, let's admit it, I am impateint with LOTS of things! If all goes well, I will resume publishing a new blog every Monday. Until then, let me send you off with a poem about the topic at hand -- PATIENCE. by the wonderful poet Pat Schneider.. -- and thank you for your patience reading this blog. I promise it will be more noteworthy once the Monday posts resume next week! Have a good week-end

The Patience of Ordinary Things

by Pat Schneider

It is a kind of love, is it not?

How the cup holds the tea,

How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,

How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes

Or toes.  How soles of feet know

Where they’re supposed to be,

I’ve been thinking about the patience

Of ordinary things, how clothes

Wait respectfully in closets

And soap dries quietly in the dish,

And towels drink the wet

From the skin of the back

And the lovely repetition of stairs.

And what is more generous than a window?