Kitchen Sermons /Kitchen Midden / How We Were Happy

1

aim for the right amount of distance
between what you want & what you have

2

the right amount of nearness
between what you love & what you can gather
in your arms

3

the right amount of presence
in the way you mean the word
God
&
use the word
often (privately
of course) in all kinds of weather
and shenanigans

4

the right amount of absence, generally

5

language to say the world
exactly as it is