VIRGO Common decency perhaps isn't as common as it should be. That's why a certain person is now standing out to you — someone who continually takes the high road in even the smallest matters.
reading, horoscopes and book news, in the superquiet. even the dogs have stopped licking their paws. I can hear the snow-wind, a small whir. I am happy like this, grateful for these fragile minutes one after another when nothing [bad] is happening at all [that I know of] and I can quiet my mind of its compulsions to wince. it's such a luxury, that. If I could give everyone in the world a gift, it would be for a spell of Nothing, just a bout of quiet and the absence of material harm or fear of harm tomorrow or too-pressing memory of past harms
In a few minutes I will probably think of something, such as his walking into the OR at his new job yesterday to find his first d&c procedure waiting, without warning put into the memory of that having been me, us, not so long ago. "Really untraumatic," he said it was. For the patient, he meant. Objectively speaking. "No cutting. What's inside you isn't attached, it's not really part of you. Not really." I will think. Of something hurty. Or scary. Then I will stand up and clean something, or do something nice ..
