Mending socks means that sometimes you have to weave new material between the threads that have disappeared with harsh use.  Not many of us darn socks these days, but all of us may have experience with strained relationships and ripped families.

Sometimes you can fix them, sometimes you can’t.  Amends means to change a contract.  There are times when my changed behavior–for the better–means we just can’t have the same relationship we did in the past.  I can indulge in a fantasy about former partners supporting my change of heart, but I can’t change their heart–only mine.

I can always use a change of heart.  Today I want my heart to be a big wet nasty bullfrog making huge delicious burping deep calls to spring.  I want to quack loud and proud like a mom duck with nine tiny fur-balls of fast-trotting babies lined up behind me.  Let my heart today be that brilliant and beautiful red-winged blackbird watching me from atop his perch.  Let me celebrate my territory of here and now life and give out a body trembling trill to the universe.

I AM THAT I AM THAT I AM!