Sometimes It Takes

Sometimes, it takes coffee with a friend in the morning to clarify your perspective.
 
Sometimes, it takes chocolate to get through the afternoon.
 
Sometimes, it takes having pasta for dinner. Or burritos. Or both.
 
Sometimes, it takes old work situations to help you understand new ones.
 
Sometimes, it takes stepping away from the computer to figure out what is wrong on the screen.
 
Sometimes, it takes putting aside everything you know to understand what you don't.
 
Sometimes, it takes sifting through everything you've ever learned to help your kids with their homework.
 
Sometimes, it takes forgetting everything you've ever learned to keep from letting your kids' homework drive you crazy.

Sometimes, it takes reading kids' books to understand how kids--and grownups--think.
 
Sometimes, it takes staying up just a little later to keep from missing all the late night conversations you realize you've been missing.
 
Sometimes, it takes just a little laughter to help you sleep a lot better.
 
Sometimes, it takes just a little more sleep to see things a lot more clearly.
 
Sometimes, it takes sleeping on something to be able to write about it.
 
Sometimes, it takes writing about something to see that you will live through it.
 
Sometimes, it takes realizing what you can live through--and have lived through--to show you that you're ready for the next thing that comes.