i think... perhaps... i should try waking up a tad earlier. perhaps i might even try using an alarm clock. i guess i am, what could well be, a professional procrastinator.
i enjoy waking up and thinking...
'what do i have to do today?'
and realizing...
'absolutely blow all.'
however...
this lackadaisical lifestyle, might well be in danger of some reorganization!
been watching the swallows, the past month or two. now those are pretty amazing little creatures.
evidently they nest under the eaves of my house every year. last year the whole place was painted. it appears the painter man had scant regard for the nesting habits of migrating birds and simply knocked down all their little mud houses. so this year they arrived home to a housing crisis! did the swallows hang around on the phone lines, wringing their wing tips and sharing the story of their suffering with any other bird within tweet distance.
nope ... they simply 'got on' with life. new nests grew beneath the eaves, mud carried a beakful at a time from wherever, attached and shaped into a new swallow home.
damn, birds don't even have hands!
now... there are swallow babies, peeping and cheeping from every swallow doorway, those hardworking parents spend their days on the wing, swooping in an endless pursuit of whatever insect meal swallow babies prefer.soon the youngsters will leave the nests and learn to fly. when the first autumn chill shivers it's way across the local landscape, the young and the old will gather themselves and take wing for warmer climes, where they will start all over again.
no really! i feel like a right idle oxygen waster. tomorrow, i wake with the first light, i exercise harder, i write more,i finish a book and take a longer walk. i give more thought to solving the world's problems. damn it ... if not me ... then who?
tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life, i don't intend to waste another minute. my navel contemplating days are over!
i'll need to prepare...
perhaps tomorrow is rushing things a bit...
maybe next week would be a good time to start...
2 comments:
Well, ya know...here we are almost halfway through July. When you think about it, the crisp, efficient time to start an endeavor like this is at the very beginning of a month. Actually, since you mention that "first autumn chill shivering its way across the landscape," (very nice, btw), maybe you should just decide on starting the first day of autumn. Or the first day of winter. Dang, the first day of 2009 sounds even more ambitious and industrious, doesn't it?
It's very clear to me that your procrastinating days are behind you. Or almost behind you. Congratulations!
dang margo! i can tell you have a fine understanding of my modus operandi...
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