For All My Friends Who Have Gone Down the Rabbit Hole

Especially for those friends who live alone

For whom the morning reflex is to reach for the phone
And doom scroll
And then roll over and doze for another hour

You do what you have to do

You shower
You feed the cat
You water the plants
You shop for groceries…some of the time

If you made promises
You keep them
Sometimes late with apologies

But so much of life now
slides and slides by you
like cars and houses and trees
in the flood waters

You escape from the news
Into games on your phone
Into serials on your tv
Into clicking on websites
Down the rabbit holes

Let’s promise ourselves

An hour outdoors
An hour reading a book
An hour talking to a friend

Breathe in
Reach out

Kristin Moyer, July 9, 2025