The Best Laid Plans

Posted on | June 28, 2009 |

Today I was determined to be serious and work hard.  It made sense; plus I’d had a couple of rather serious conversations over the previous day, about friends who were hurting for various reasons. The weather cooperated by being miserable, drizzling when it wasn’t actually raining.  Yes, I was going to do some real work.

And somehow happiness kept breaking into my day. Everything from the goldfinch clowning in the springy new shoots of the tree, to the way a neighbor’s dog was just so full of life and bounce, to the bees sipping at the clover and tumbling around in their enthusiasm.  Everything combined to make me smile. The garden shop with fantastic petunias at $3 each - and I had only the vaguest notion what a petunia was before these velvety purple things hijacked me. Now I own a couple.

And you know what?  I think I got the work done I needed to, today, without even trying.

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