Taking Care of Business

May 20, 2008

I think the mental gymnastics of the past couple weeks is over. The period of spring transition, any transition really, predictably hits me with feelings of insecurity and inadequacy as well as general overwhelm-ment (not a word but suits my purposes) with life. Problem is I forget that I go through this every single year until it's over and I remember "oh yeah, this happened last year".

As spring collides with summer my expectations for what I can accomplish are usually unrealistic. I scramble around trying to meet my goals for last season while jumping into next season's routines and rhythms.

Sometime this weekend (maybe Saturday's hike really did help) I dropped expectations, cleared my mind and my weekly planner. And a funny thing happened, I got an amazing amount accomplished today, including loving on my kids and neighbors. Best of all my mind was uncluttered.

I'm sure the intoxicating smell of my kitchen table lilac bouquet helped.