A Simple Perfection

Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash

One of the side effects of this past year is a more finely honed muscle for the appreciation of ordinary things. Today was such a morning.

I want nothing more in this life

than to drink tea on the patio

while the smell of rain moves in

to the swaying accompaniment

of New Wave music on the radio

and a friendly dog with floppy ears and a square snout

sprawled out on the patio floor.