Amazing what’s happening when love becomes an instinct. ~ television story about a man with Alzheimer’s out to buy flowers for his wife the day before Mother’s Day

There’s an etiquette of gift-giving, one that mothers knew
way before Sheldon’s pacing the stage of Big Bang Theory
holding multiple packages to have one in a reciprocal range.
There’s a purpose for presents higher than looking good
when a day of designated thoughtfulness comes around and to not won’t do.
There’s a place for the love of doing for the doing’s sake,
of sharing because I’m happy and I want to spread that to you,
of seeing a need and responding — so long as the response isn’t codependence…
There’s a time for love way above and beyond expectations,
a time to do it because it’s the right thing to do.