A hope when things go wrong

So far today I've lost important papers, had my plans turned upside down, ran into a wall (yes, I did), hit my head really hard on a chair, and had a knife dropped on my foot. But...

"Surely there is a future, and [my] hope will not be cut off." :)

This will be a great day! :)

The secret...

 ...of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
~Mark Twain

Because moments are more important

I had  a plan. We were going to do a photoshoot. I had props, my reflector, and

clean matching clothes.Then we got to the beach.

 I got one pose out of them. Then, when asked to do something else...

 "But Leah, it's too pretty to take pictures and be busy. Today is a day to run!"

 A day to run. A day to be free from the Martha concerns and plans, unbusyed by lists of 'to do's. 

A day to make footprints in the sand.

 Because now matters. Because moments are important.

This moment.  Running in the now.

I long to grasp the fleeting moments. I long to understand the meaning of the minutes and the memorials unappreciated. To treasure this time. To take the time to find joy in running the race.

Every day these moments slip away like so much sand. Are they caught, and treasured? Truly valued for the gift that they are?

May you find meaning in the moments today. 

In the whole of world history there is always only one really significant hour- the present...

~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Next, please...

It feels like a warm spring afternoon. One of those wonderful days when you have all day, and nothing to do. But I have a lot to do. A list a mile long.

I know I need to do-what I would say to some one else. "Do the next thing."
The next thing on the list of the importants.

So I'm going to turn off the computer. Right now.

And do the next thing.

Who I found in my window seat

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

~Oscar Wilde

Wrong again, unfortunately

The precipitation never got the memo to change from ice to snow. Oh well. This is Texas after all.

 My computer is telling me that it's freezing right now.

I could not have figured that out without help.

"Roomservice, Roomservice, don' send up any more ice." -W. C. Fields

Frigid with a possibility of precipitation-snow, to be precise.

Schools are closing. Which, in turn, means that everything of reputable knowledge of Houston weather will also be closing. (I've even heard rumors of snow days being incorporated into the Fort Bend County ISD schedule.)

You see, due to Global Cooling and the beginning of the 12.5th ice age, they've predicted snow.

Sometime tonight the 80% chance of precipitation will morph into 60% chance of snow. At least, so the experts claim.

Is it too much to ask that Texas be granted snow two consecutive years?

Because, if you're going to close everything, it at least should snow to make delays worthwhile.

Tomorrow may show the prediction to be one of the first examples of weather personnel being correct.

Or it may show the usual: people confusing the Unlikely with the Impossible.

Only time will tell.