Using Time Wisely

Entering and stepping into 

the real world of home and 

hearth can be a pretty big 

challenge! But there is no 

challenge unless I count the 

kitchen’s junk drawer or the 

pile of tax documents, perhaps 

the latest snow fall. Manageable 

things for today and tomorrow, 

so isn’t it really the annoying 

maxim called ‘Using Time Wisely’?

The chaos of the larger world 

continues while home is restored 

to order; doing what is possible

including a good read, a cup of 

tea and musical interludes ~

and a quick look into the chaos 

of the larger world for hints of

things one can do to effect 

some relief for me and thee.

“It is the time you have wasted for your 

rose that makes your rose so important.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Pancakes and Maple Syrup

Ready for whatever comes, 

I know that today 

is ready, and as yesterday, 

it was food prep day. 

I did watch some news, but only so much. Always leaves me with more questions than answers, lumps great scoops 

of anxiety on my plate like 

it was a celebration dinner 

with all the trimmings. 

Anxiety doesn’t fit well 

in my life any more than 

an itchy wool sweater. Today, 

I made pancakes and granola, 

thanking the dishwasher gods for 

their help. There were so many pots 

and pans between yesterday and today. 

The TV news did not even mention all 

of my work. Disappointing but I suppose 

it’s none of their business and 

not high flying enough. I’m sure 

they would have enjoyed a big 

plate of pancakes and maple syrup. 

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as 

by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”

~ Epictetus