There are days...

...when it feels like the ground keeps shifting beneath your feet. You stumble and recover and try to keep putting one foot in front of the other, plodding along, only to find it shifting again and you don't know which way to brace yourself. On days like this, sanity is more relative than ever. It is really tempting to find something warm and cozy to wrap your arms around--something to love and protect that, in some small way, provides you with love and protection because of the very fact that it stayed in your arms for a few moments and accepted your love and protection before it dissolved through your fingers like fine, soft sand.