In love again                 

Being in love is wonderful

just like Spring in your heart.

Everything is different.

Everything glows.

If you’re in love

everything is pretty and sunny

because up to now

you’ve become half blind,

blinded by the depressing,

heavy view of life.

There are many sides to being in love.

But there is one kind of love

that we need more  than ever before

in our complicated, problem-laden society,

in our society which has had an overdose of psychiatry.

It is being in love

with ordinary everyday things.

Recent discoveries

have not been discoveries of wisdom,

but discoveries of speed

that don’t bring us one step

closer to happiness.

Discover again with me

the ordinary things,

the simple charm

of friendship ,

a few flowers for a sick person,

an open door, a welcoming table,

eating plain old fish and french fries

or a hamburger,

lazing in a garden chair

gazing at the sky,

a handshake, a grin,

the quiet of a church,

a child’s drawing,

the opening of a bud,

the chirping of a bird,

a row of poplars,

a stream, a mountain, a cow…

Life becomes a feast

if you can enjoy ordinary everyday things.

It is Spring! Yippee!

I’m in love again

-with ordinary things

Don’t forget

that every day is given to you

as an eternity to be happy.