The day I chose to help the world be kind
and gentle to itself turned out to be
the same cold day I lost my shit and mind
while hauling my two toddlers furiously
away from slides and swings where I decided
to take them stoller-free and lacking snack.
"You do not screw with schedule," Wisdom chided,
as I wrangled noncompliant wrigglers back 
toward the distant car in need of fre-
quent stops to pull my Wranglers up. The scene
was dignified to say the least, and me,
the model of a modern major mean(ie).
Oh yes, the day I chose to share the ways of kindness--
Some days you wish life had some more rewind-ness.