Layers of nonsense

“Wherever you come near the human race there’s layers and layers of nonsense.”

                                                                        ― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

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we are pretty silly, God,

underneath our facades of normalcy

there are layers and layer of complexity

there are hope and dreams

fears and resentment

there are odd little corners filled with surprises

(not all of them good)

It is safe to say our minds are not safe neighborhoods

(my mind is a bad neighborhood I try not to go into alone – Anne Lamott)

there more of us there are

the stranger it gets

and then there are the multiplier factors

politics

and religion

yep

layers and layers of nonsense

and yet is in the midst of all that

when the facades come down

and

for brief brilliant moments

we are real

that we find

the spark of the Divine

in ourselves

and in each other

there is nothing quite as wonderful as

the fellowship of

the flawed