Somehow between now and January 30, I have to get a handle on this. I have to get me a plan. So far I haven’t come up with much. Last year, I proclaimed a Winter of Scarves, and I began wearing scarves almost daily to help me keep warm. As I closed in on my 49th birthday, that was my revelation. A Winter of Scarves.
This year, the only thing I have so far -- it’s gonna be my Year of Showering. I have suddenly discovered that a quick extra shower can really recharge me. I had to be almost 50 to figure this out. Okay I don’t mean I plan to do this every day. I’m talking about another little shower that gets squeezed in somewhere, if you have to go out, for example. It makes me feel like I’m starting over.
A Year of Showering isn’t much of an ambitious plan. I need a Big Plan. Every year, in fact, I plan to have a plan but I don’t do it – except for these mini declarations about scarves and showers. I feel I must have one to drive the rest of my life forward and make the most of every day. It’s not that I’m thinking I don’t have many more days. It’s that I can look back and see so clearly now how many of the days I just blew – pfffft. Those days just flowed through my fingers like water. I guess I still feel that there I things I am meant to do, but it seems like if I don’t get it figured out by zero hour, everything will disappear, and I’ll be surrounded by a pumpkin on wheels and a clutch of little white mice. And the clock, she is ticking, my friends. I have 25 days counting today.
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don't look back so much. it can cause too much regret. and regret can clutter the path. and to paraphrase madeline l'engle.....you don't lose any of the years you have already accumulated. so, you still have 40, 45, 49...forever. they are yours to keep. i'm loving your blog.
ReplyDeleteHmm. I like that. Can I choose which ones I keep and which ones I don't?
ReplyDeleteI am loving your blog also! I didn't know you had a year of scarves! As for a year of showers, um, could it be you have been having some hot flashes? Or have you not even though about menopause? Sorry if I have just harshed your mellow...
ReplyDeleteThat is a word that must never be spoken in my presence!! Never!!
ReplyDelete1. I'm a big fan of Madeline L'engle. Thanks for sharing that quote.
ReplyDelete2. The M word is worse even than the F word.
3. Laura, let this be the Year of the Hot Tub. Far more invigorating and cleansing than showers, a daily dip in the Hot Tub will lead you on the path to truth and enlightenment. The sacred journey you make to the hot tub each day will be all the more powerful when close family members, such as I, can join you in the dervish waters. This is the answer you have been seeking, yes. The Year of the Hot Tub.
Ah, my sister, you produce an affectionate chuckle from me. I see where you are going with this. You have long been in favor of Tim putting in a hot tub in our back yard. Even so, maybe you are right.
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