Lora Bondrov

“When all else fails, laugh at the quandary.

When all else fails, laugh at yourself.

When all else fails, love as is.”
― Shellen Lubin

“When all else fails, find a child to figure it out.”
― Shellen Lubin

“If you can't find an answer?
If you don't know what to do?...

Make a move.”
― Shellen Lubin

“In earlier times,
decades, centuries,
even when we drove ourselves mad,
even when we lost days
or years
to drinking, drugging,
pain,
grief--
the years have always maintained their seasons:
trees shedding their leaves for new buds;
birds and insects flying away in formation
and then returning;
the luminous moon waxing and waning;
the ocean tides flowing and ebbing;
new growth, babies aborning,
as certain as trauma,
as certain as death.
All things went on
no matter the chaos inside us.
There was a childish anger
that everything just carried on,
ignored our turmoil--
our grief--
but there was also a deep and profound comfort.
We ourselves may be lost
but the road continued ever winding...

Have we disrupted that continuum?
Can we no longer count on that continuity?
Is that why our children are so afraid
but also so unwilling to swallow systemic lies
and deeply imbedded fallacies
we allowed ourselves to live by?
Because the future--
a future--
any future--
is no longer sure?”
― Shellen Lubin