What I know for sure is that life is never smooth. There’s always bumps and hiccoughs. I wouldn’t want it any other way. Otherwise it would be a dull journey. If there were no hitches, obstacles and detours, I wouldn’t know how to problem solve, adapt and change directions. Difficulties can be good medicine so I’m sucking it up, pulling up my socks and swallowing it. I’m being a woman.

What I know for sure is nothing is for sure. What’s here today can be gone tomorrow. Hence the adage of don’t hang on to things and no attachment. We’ve/I’ve known all this forever but not truly understand it. I only get it on rare occasions, like right now in late evening, tapping on the keyboard. I get it now in the midst of a hiccough but once the moment(s) is gone, the understanding can be lost again. And I go back to taking things for granted. I feel safe and secure again. And it is good. I need times in safe harbour, out of the storm.