Making Up for Lost Time
Two for the Price of One
The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get ...
It seems that lately I've been very bad about my time management. Nyeh [she shrugs]. Can't be helped. Some days you just do what you can do and don't worry about the rest. So today you get two treats - 1) Me, doing my rambling thing with no definable topic point in sight; and 2) Dana Cameron (interview to be posted shortly). I can pretty much assure you that she will be far more interesting than I today.
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
-- Kathleen Norris (1880-1966) US writer
I've mentioned before that I see and hear all kinds of interesting things on my walks around our neighborhood. There is an older gentleman who walks every day, without fail, and goes about 7 or 8 laps around our street. That's 10 miles. Rain or shine. He wears a floppy straw hat when the weather's contrary, but he's out there. Such discipline - I think there's a lesson to be learned here.
Then there's the guy who walks every day, but probably only because his doctor told him to. He does just the back stretch (about 3/4 mile), up and down, up and down and then he's done. With a cigar in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other. I wonder whether his doctor forgot to tell him to cut back on the tobacco and caffeine, too ...? Mr. Cigar, meet Mr. Straw Hat. Observe. Learn.
I walk for a lot of different reasons, any of which you could guess and probably be right. Mostly I like observing my surroundings, soaking up nature and all that stuff. It makes me appreciate what I have, being fully aware that life will pass you by faster than you can blink.
Speaking of which, The Tall One - my firstborn - turned 17 yesterday. She was excited, happy, smiling the whole day. I spent most of it remembering the day of her birth. But that's another story.
If you're checking early today, I'm glad you're here, but come back again in a little while for my interview with author Dana Cameron. I'll wait until tomorrow to tell you to read a book.
=) JB
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