DING-DANGED GLAD

I'm not a girlfriend
I'm not a wife
I'm not a mother
I'm not on the PTA
and I don't do carpool

I am a daughter
I am a sister
I am an aunt
I am a great aunt
and I am a Great Aunt, too

I do camp outs
and tea parties
and crazy trips through the drive-thru
I do tattoo sessions
and hikes
and tequila shots

"And I'm a ding-danged glad of it!"

SOMEONE YOU KNOW

Somewhere
someone you know
is lonely

Somewhere
someone you know
is struggling with self-doubt

Somewhere
someone you know
can barely get themselves out of bed

Or perhaps
they are widowed
and most of their friends and siblings are dead
so they are hitting the bottle a little too often
or they've lost their license and their hearing and their eyesight
and the ability to do so many of the things that made them feel alive

So what are you gonna do about it?