"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Do we pay attention to the details
Weave them into life's tapestry
Or do we not sweat the small stuff
And focus on the big picture
I can delight in the smallest detail
And get overwhelmed by an avalanche of them
The curl on my child's head, for example
Or the mountain of papers on my desk.
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I feel like I've been dealing with a lot of scattered details these past two weeks: train schedules, conference notes, appointments, landscaping, deadlines, laundry, weather, standardized testing, technology, travel plans. I'm in a maze of details; I know I'm moving forward, but will I get out? Most evenings, I find myself glassy-eyed and paralyzed on the couch while plans whiz by in my head like ticker-tape. I arise with effort to tackle just one thing before falling into bed too late and berating myself for wasting time on the couch. Not unhappy, not necessarily harried, just moving a bit too unfocused and quickly for my liking. Perhaps this song should be my mantra for the next few weeks:
Hope you get time to "watch the flowers growing", and feel groovy.
ReplyDeleteI came home to a completed landscaping job; that helped! And yes, there are new flowers. :-)
DeleteI've been in a bit of a funk lately, too. I wrote a bit about it today. I hadn't thought about it before but maybe it is all the details. Maybe I need slow down and feel groovy!
ReplyDeleteI think it may just be the time of year, when the summer is just around the corner and there's still so much to do at work. Hoping I can feel a bit more calm after the weekend!
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