we could still stop at this point though right? I mean, I’m asking for a friend…

We all seem to have

friends these days

Maybe we could have stopped, if we had really thought that our destiny was only to extend across the continent.

Or if we’d put more efforts into peace than into warfare. Or perhaps stopped to look in the mirror to learn how to love ourselves sincerely and completely, as a human family.

I look into the mirror every time I bend over my coffee table

Like safeguards against any addiction, energy flows where attention goes.

Positive sources of esteem insulate against self-harm,

gardens of self-worth

you water daily with habits that develop emotional and intellectual maturity.

are we allowed poppies in our garden?

there’s an addiction gene they say. but it’s also a disease. the 6th step is actually relapse. it’s more of a circle than a progression. a warm happy circle. why am I so itchy? can I borrow that twenty though? gotta see a man about a horse…