January 31, 2020

UNDOING  A  KNOT

Colors, letters, numbers …

mothers comment to each other

about their kids learning their

numbers, the alphabet, their colors,

but knots -  no. There’s no year ….

There’s no best time in childhood

to teach a kid how to undo a knot –

nope.   But when they happen,

just don’t make it worse.

“Here …. Let me try it.”

“Here …. You try it. You have

better nails than I do.” And together

one or both of them learn that time

and fingernails and patience and

just trying not to make the knot tighter –

but looser - is the trick – now as to

teenage knots and relationship knots

and life’s nots – hopefully we still

have our moms and dads and others

to help us - to undo the knots and

not to make things worse. Amen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections