Cosmic balance

Sometimes it feels like there are a lot of bad things:

• My dog, the best dog in the world, died in a minute's time with zero minutes' notice in January.
• My grandmother, after frequent stays in the hospital & nursing home over the last 6 months, and less frequent but still fairly regular hospital/nursing home visits over the past 5-6 years, passed away last week.
• Our friend and historical collaborator from Co-Madres in El Salvador has cancer that just doesn't want to respond to the relentless treatments she has undergone in the last year and a half. She remains a fighter, but I worry constantly how long her strength can last.

It helps, then, to think also about the good things. I'm not going to get all cheesy and start talking about closed doors vs. opened windows, but it make me feel a bit better to think about the cosmic balance of events. It's sort of like karma, but for the world.

• My dear friend from college is getting married to her wonderful boyfriend of 4+ years.
• My closest neighbor-friend is going to have a baby girl in June July and I have already signed up to babysit.
• I got a new dog who is very playful and sweet and she is small enough to fit on my lap (in like a year, when we've taught her she can't jump up whenever she wants).
• Within the past 10 days I had a baby fall asleep on my chest, blew bubbles "to put out the fire!" with a nearly-4 year old, and ate Girl Scout cookies with a 2 year old.