The minute you place yourself above, what does that do to others? - Naomi Shihab Nye

Give up the annoying question, "How long does this have to be?" Just wonder-how long does it need to be? Then try to find out.

She opened her mouth
and a siren came out.

I used to get in trouble a lot when I was a kid in elementary school for, well, what the teacher would call daydreaming. It was daydreaming, but I always felt that it was almost deeper. I remember wanting to respond and say something like, “Well, it’s not just daydreaming. I’m in a hypnotic trance, thinking about the blood inside my body right now, and all the different things it’s doing that I will never see"...that feeling of being transported by the miracle that we’re living inside of it every minute, and we often don’t even think about it.