Oh, I do love these (especially the title poem, which I hadn't seen for quite a spell, not least because I identify so strongly with its/your attitude. I had to smile at one word: when our old GP retired, we were doing a new patient interview with her successor, an equally fabulous woman. She looked at our living will directives, glanced at my wife (who's almost uninterruptedly upbeat although, believe me, a long way from "clueless") and whispered "Tigger." Then she turned my way and whispered "Eeyore."
Oh, I do love these (especially the title poem, which I hadn't seen for quite a spell, not least because I identify so strongly with its/your attitude. I had to smile at one word: when our old GP retired, we were doing a new patient interview with her successor, an equally fabulous woman. She looked at our living will directives, glanced at my wife (who's almost uninterruptedly upbeat although, believe me, a long way from "clueless") and whispered "Tigger." Then she turned my way and whispered "Eeyore."
"pretty" is the adjectival equivalence of "curb your enthusiasm."
"half full vs half empty" is not just shorthand for distinguishing between
optimistic and pessimistic views, it also is a determinate of
temporal perceptiveness:
"half empty" laments the past and the loss of yesterday.
"half full" celebrates the present and what remains today.