a nun shot me down

I was sitting in the quiet of the narthex feeling

reconciled in a weird way to my life here..It is a weird

place to live and yet I am feeling couched in it...

and a nun came in to the room and I was peaceful

and considerate, she has leg issues and I asked her 'how are you feeling?'

she shot me down with a 'thank god, how are you?'

It's just something to expect around here at times.

I guess I am writing it because it's lingering in the way 

my outlook is for the day - but I suppose she was just

dealing with maybe a day that she wasn't feeling so great

and she didn't want to talk about it.