Compartments

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tiny squares all filled with bright colors
big and small, each with a separate compartment
light and dark mingle and create their own rainbows
neat arrangements that always stay the same
four walls that divide all the ingredients
eyes that look, seeing everything in order
a melancholy parallel to this world
remove the spacers, witness what can happen
blending
jumbled
mixture
of
confection
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In truth, if I removed all of the spacers and the beads really did get all mixed up, sadly my type (A) personality would explode into a huge anxiety attack. Today, I realized just how important consistent order is to me, when I caught myself staring over this container...and smiling as I caught a rebel bead not in its rightful place and plunked it where it belonged. I once went to a teachers convention and they had us follow this picture exercise where we were supposed to draw big lines "outside" of the box. It was a trick the main speaker was playing on us, to see if we would actually follow the directions, or manipulate them and complete the picture while remaining "inside" the box. Guess who manipulated the directions? I have siblings and children who love to be spontaneous and I admire them and people like Leonie who enjoy painting with their hands, roll their artwork around in the grass, and come up with a Masterpiece! Amazing! Life is unpredictable, lines that can get drawn way outside of the box......and this can be a very good thing ;)