Can we just talk, for a minute, about how fast time goes by?
I mean, really.
Why must time, and the lack thereof, feel so chaotic... I mean we know that it is fleeting but does it have to feel so hectic at the same time?
This past weekend we had friends visiting -- it was a blast, but the time went way too fast. And now, it's Monday (yes, posting this on Tuesday--that's how much time I had... just enough to write but not to actually publish) but then between design projects, this blog, finishing the downstairs bathroom, playing in the endlessly falling leaves with the boy, making sure to record it all as I go, cooking dinner--What would you do with a Spaghetti Squash?--Seeking out a cure for childhood food allergies, blaming it all on politics and the new Southampton Post Office... Ugh, going to the grocery store--Again. Laundry. And the clutter that I can't seem to crawl out from under..Wow and only ten minutes before my conference call and then off to the doctor again to see if I can't score a flu shot. Let's just consider this week over. And then a wedding in the city on Saturday night--I have no idea what I am going to wear (any suggestions?)... Then two weeks of the same combined with our wedding anniversary, Thanksgiving and Will's birthday.
Okay.. seven minutes until the conference call. How did we manage to pack a lifetime into the month of November? Did we sit down and say - this is the month that we are going to get it ALL DONE. Everything. Lifetime events paired with the necessary holiday traveling and My God - The PACKING! Couldn't we have spread our lives out a little bit? I mean... we have 11 other months to work with, why do it all in one? And what am I doing here typing this -- with everything else that needs to get done? Okay, 3 minutes left....The typing slows...as my mind goes blank and I suddenly find the silence to breathe.
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I mean, really.
Why must time, and the lack thereof, feel so chaotic... I mean we know that it is fleeting but does it have to feel so hectic at the same time?
This past weekend we had friends visiting -- it was a blast, but the time went way too fast. And now, it's Monday (yes, posting this on Tuesday--that's how much time I had... just enough to write but not to actually publish) but then between design projects, this blog, finishing the downstairs bathroom, playing in the endlessly falling leaves with the boy, making sure to record it all as I go, cooking dinner--What would you do with a Spaghetti Squash?--Seeking out a cure for childhood food allergies, blaming it all on politics and the new Southampton Post Office... Ugh, going to the grocery store--Again. Laundry. And the clutter that I can't seem to crawl out from under..Wow and only ten minutes before my conference call and then off to the doctor again to see if I can't score a flu shot. Let's just consider this week over. And then a wedding in the city on Saturday night--I have no idea what I am going to wear (any suggestions?)... Then two weeks of the same combined with our wedding anniversary, Thanksgiving and Will's birthday.
Okay.. seven minutes until the conference call. How did we manage to pack a lifetime into the month of November? Did we sit down and say - this is the month that we are going to get it ALL DONE. Everything. Lifetime events paired with the necessary holiday traveling and My God - The PACKING! Couldn't we have spread our lives out a little bit? I mean... we have 11 other months to work with, why do it all in one? And what am I doing here typing this -- with everything else that needs to get done? Okay, 3 minutes left....The typing slows...as my mind goes blank and I suddenly find the silence to breathe.
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