La paix | Reconciliation

Sometimes

a plain, simple blue sky

is enough to make me smile without even realizing it

Sometimes

I’m dazzled by a colorful snail on a treetop branch, still beaded with dew after the rain

Leaving the lab at dusk, I can still savor the soft colors that the last glow of sunset and the blue-hour sky blend together overhead

Walking down the hill past some nameless vegetable patch, I’m reminded of a plate of stir-fried pumpkin vines I ate long, long ago

I get upset about missing the northern lights, I shut myself away when a bug just won’t get fixed, and I worry about the future

Oh dear, just out of the gym, and I’ve forgotten the very racket I went in to fetch; guess I’ll walk back and soak up a little more sun

Every rainy day, a lost umbrella; every class, a lost water bottle

Now and then I think back on people and things from before, some with fondness, some too painful to look back on, and the next second I’m laughing at myself again

Sometimes at peace, sometimes butting heads; nobody can be online at 100%, every single moment

Maybe this is it, the most ordinary and yet the most beautiful

life

La paix is actually a gentle, graceful piece of music: it’s the pas de deux at 1:40:00 in Coppélia, where the hero and heroine reconcile.