I knew mopping was on my 'to do' list.

When I get in a hurry, I often forget important steps. Hence more work. But you know, sometimes you need to get things done and end up doing them without meaning to, and end up being very productive. For example, here's the steps to getting around to mopping the kitchen- even when you DON'T think you have time.
Step 1- Act like you're filling up a water bottle. Actually, fill it up.

Step 2- Screw the lid on. Just don't. Like, leave it so...(continue to next step)
Step 3- You pick up the water bottle (by the lid), actually only pick up the lid dropping the water bottle and spill a gallon of water on the kitchen floor.
Step 4- Mop it up. See, I told you you were being productive!

The only problem with this kind of productivity is, when I finish the task I didn't start out to do, I've forgotten the original task. The water bottle is still, as far as I know, downstairs on the kitchen counter.

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