SATURDAY MORNING COMING DOWN

It’s Saturday morning, grey and overcast.  No sun yet.  It evokes in me feelings from the song, Sunday Morning Coming Down – nostalgia and hung over, feelings of  a misspent youth, and memories of early university days.

Yes, those days were somewhat misspent but not wasted.  No, I never finished and got a degree.  But it was an education all the same.  And it was fun in a painful sort of way.  I got to explore the world, getting lost and found and lost again but not forever.  I got to taste the bitter along with the sweet.  I discovered I had appeal but never believed it.

I was a fool and a saint.  I was an innocent and innocent of the fact.  Someone up there looked after me!  And I came out alright.

It is Saturday morning and it is snowing tiny snow flakes.  Enough of nostalgia and wallowing in memories.  On with the day.  Forward, march!

SATURDAY

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Saturday.  The laundry is washed, dried, folded and put away.  My bread is in the oven.  Sheba is underfoot, of course.  I send her out with a bone.  She is happy.  Life does not need to be hard.

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That is what I am learning today.  Life does not have to be hard.  You put one foot in front of the other.  You take a step.  You reach out, if you can, and touch someone.  You breathe in and out.  You stay and live in this moment because that is all that is open to you.  And it is good….living in the moment.