Susan says: It’s the New Year now and I have been tossing around all the ideas of stuff to write about. Lots of good stuff comes up, but never when I’m near the keyboard… but I can say that it is always because I am busy with the business of living. Having a great time by the way. Trying to be joyously spontaneous. Or spontaneously joyful. One of those.
So one of the things I’m doing this weekend is tidying up – majorly. That includes my desk drawers. The other day when I was noticing that I needed to add “tidy up desk drawers” to my list, my son suggested that desk drawers should not ever be tidied. They should be kept as disorganized as possible so that you can continue to be surprised by whatever you may find lurking in the back corners. I had to think about that for a good two days before it came to me that you don’t discover the surprises until you actually do the tidying up. So that has been the spirit of the first few days of this year. Fresh start and all that. And I am discovering lots of great surprises.
Like it takes me 12 minutes to run a mile. Now that may seem slow to many of you. But it was a real surprise to me that I could even continue to run for an entire mile. Damn! And all because I tidied up. I mean, I did the work. Eight weeks ago I could not have run for 3 minutes. But I have committed to running this marathon in February and so I have been running regularly to train for it and now I can see that I can run a mile in 12 minutes. Surprise!
AND if I put my mind to it, I can finish all the laundry, fold it all and put it away and it doesn’t have to take the whole day. Surprise! And also, my son will not die and I will not die, if I don’t do his laundry for him. He can do his laundry himself. Surprise! He actually can! I’ve seen him!
AND even though I didn’t put anything out for dinner, I can just use what we have in the fridge and still make an edible dinner. In fact, a bowl of cheerios would have done just as nicely. My husband even liked it. Surprise!
AND you can have enough income and assets, have your documents and agreements and estimates, have all your little ducks in a nice, even row and the bank can still say no. Surprise! Lucky for me I’m so clever. I will find another way.
AND at the back of my desk drawer, I found many great surprises, among them, my stash of two dollar bills and my Chicago drivers license from 1989 (why do I even still have that??) Anyway, it has a great picture of me when I was just 24 years old. I had perfect porcelain skin. It was nice to remember that.
Yes, it’s been a pretty cool first few days…
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