What does it all mean, anyway? (4)

Your being like that
is why everything always ends up
like this.
-Urusei Yatsura

Recently I bought new towels
for the kitchen and first floor bathroom.
The latter are a rich gold color, made partly
of modal fiber from European beechwood trees.

Now every time I walk into that bathroom,
I feel compelled to touch them and savor
their texture. Sometimes I even take one
off the rack just to rub it against my face.

I appreciate all the good things I have.
I appreciate who and what makes me happy.

Umbrella, light, landscape, sky --
There is no language of the holy.
The sacred lies in the ordinary.
Deng Ming Dao