I am not always the brightest bulb in the lamp. No sirreeee bobby.
Sometimes, I am downright dim…. when it comes to being on the right path, it seems.
I say the wrong thing. I don’t act quick enough, or perhaps I over react. There are times when I feel like I am choosing the wrong fork in the road, the wrong fork on the plate, and the wrong fork in the tongue.
Try. Sure I try. But not always successfully, I suspect. I know.
The thing about it is. Learning to get back up once you trip over your own big feet. There is a quote about that…. something like … it doesn’t matter how many times you fall down. What matters is how many times you get up.
Or as Buddha said. Fall down seven times. Get up eight.
So. Continue to try…. I will. To be better at this thing called life. Living it. Trying to “lighten” things up. Sometimes it happens out of the clear blue. Like…
Today, I had somewhere I “needed” to be. But …. I had a chance to learn to throw a piece of pottery. Wouldn’t you know it? I sat down at that wheel and worked with that clay.
It was like magic. It was me, busy me… having to be exactly somewhere … in the little time zone in my head. “Don’t sway from the course Polly. Stick to your OCD schedule Kronenberger. Get it done when you say you are going to get it done … hurry up… schedule. Time… tick.. tock.
And then. A miracle happened. I made it shut up. For just a moment. I sat down at that pottery wheel and learned a completely incredible thing about it. And about me.
Not only did I make a piece of pottery… a clay jar to hold some of my rocks… I made a ripple in the wave. A step of change. An ounce of doing. It was the Faeries in the Woods, and the Cheshire Cat, and the Easter Bunny. Magic.
The bulb got a little brighter. For that one brief shining moment. And I truly hope to flip that switch again… and again.
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“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman
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“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” – Leo Tolstoy
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“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb