laughter will replace all pain

laughter will re-place all pain,

denial,

forgetting,

lies

i choose the joy of God instead of pain

laughter/freedom is my inheritance

in-here-nt

a joke always has a truth

and then a funny take on it,

a strange, surprising

delightful, innocent mishearing,

mis-seeing

mis-interpretation

mis-take

mis-understanding brings joy

reminds us nothing is serious

there is room/space

of lightheartedness,

indeed, that space is Life

like Art Linkletter's

kid's say the darndest things :-)

we can see ourselves

our child thoughts now

with love

perhaps, we think, a "reason" to have kids

is they keep us seeing things lightheartedly...

falling down they jump right up and laugh and go on

they pull us in

to play games

and lay on the grass and look up at the clouds

daydream

watch ants for hours

building hills

marvelling at their strength and cooperation

operating as one

and they/we

pick a dandelion

for our mom

as an expression of pure love

reminding us it's not what we do,

but the love we do it with

we're (child thoughts) not in the future--

looking for the end of the rainbow

nor thinking we shouldn't be afraid

we just are

we just express our feelings

screaming, crying, jealously hitting,

loving deeply

we make lots of mistake

as naturally as we breathe

it's how we learn

the only choice is

do we laugh

or cry?

why would you fill up your dad's shoes with water?

or cut up a chair with scissors?

or try to dig a hole to the earth

through the cement floor of your basement? :-)

i give everything all the meaning it has

it all makes perfect sense to the thinker.

where the literal thinking is brought to light,

we see the non-sense--

no common sense:

if i yell at you, you'll love me

if i attack you/throw a tantrum, you'll cooperate, respect my point of view, listen to me...

silly!

child!

the grown up

can

laugh...