A few weeks back I wrote about reclaiming my sundays. Post the reclaim, I find myself busier than normal. Weird! I hoped that the reclaimed sundays was the day to plough through hetherto neglected items. I find myself not ploughing through on a bullet train, but slowly dragging through sludge! Not literally! Eugh! That would be simply horrid (i hate sludge). Slow (sometimes excruciatingly slow) is the way things are going right now. I have come to realize there is no point in push a pace which is not really effective.
... not all pace is slow, some of it is happening in breakneck speeds! Work for instance has gotten wicked busy! That is the only way I like it, I thrive in it. It is the need to be needed, otherwise it is irritating boring and waste of time. Past year there were scheduling challenges that made for less than optimum speeds of progress. But this year, the train is chugging along at a quite a clip! Every so often, like today, the train takes a break at a station. It is fun to get off the train for the day and explore the world around at the station.
... not all of it is work, social life has suddenly gone to becoming one crazy stream of fun-filled wackiness. I guess everyone is coming out of the wood work post the cold snowy winters of the northeast. Back to back, I have wine tastings, dinners, pot-lucks, visits to my favorite haunts - scutra, lexx, oak room, and the list is simply ever expanding. I have plotted on my calendar to be free some evening in April.
... not all of it is fun, there are some tough questions to be attended to, really tough ones; it is time to let go of the past, time to shed them as old ragged clothes burn or bury them. Somethings and some people are just not worthy of my time, kindness and love. Time to toss these out once for all. Someone wise said (or may have been in a movie!) "You see things more clearly when you let go!". And of course the toughest question... what color to paint my living room! So many shades of white! From cream to egg-shell to snow to clear to brilliant to dusky! Wah! I just wanted white! Another toughie... planning plantation this season!
... not all of it is tough; some are complete no-brainers; No strain on the brain to play with kitties, completing wine catalog (I am proud of this baby!), enjoying the sun and warmth (I am the hopeless optimistic about it being warm soon), completing my porch work, and planning home refinancing. Last year lent promise lasted couple of weeks, this time it lasted less than 12 hours. Ok! What does that tell me? Hmm.... It tells me (a) stop doing these lent promises, it does not work and (b) I am going to hell, ah! If and only if there is one and I don't think there is one. I believe the heaven and hell are all part of the kingdom of god! HA! And I don't know what kingdom of god means as yet, and I don't bother defining it, save for the belief that it is all around me. So, I infer heaven and hell is all around me! Just look around you and you will find all examples of good, kind, bad and evil.
... not all of it is.... I am running out of these, so I will wrap up and run out the door to meet some folks for coffee at the local starbucks!