The Small Stuff

I had a lot on my mind today when I went on my walkies. None of the problems were biggies, just the little piddly stuff that tends to be bothersome: lack of motivation in weight loss (stagnant for WEEKS), poor choices made by kidlet (her grounding is over today. I probably could/should write a blog), the fact I probably won't ever make any money selling my stories (hubby did taxes last night), the fact that I'm sprouting a couple of pimples (I'm 50, for Pete's sake! Sorry, kiddies, you will still get pimpies when you're older--only now you'll have a batch of wrinkles to go with them!), that I forgot it was Valentine's day (oops!),or how to play nice while judging contest entries (two down, three to go!).

I was about at the halfway point in my walk when I noticed a V-shaped flock of geese coming in for a landing about 25 yards away. There's a plot of land in front of a hotel that has been kept mowed in preparation for some sort of development. The geese were coming in a little high, so as one (very Borg-like, don't you think?) they changed their minds. They rose higher and circled to the right, and as they came around, they crossed over their original landing line and circled left. I lost them in the fog and figured they went a mile down the 'pike to the land surrounding a junior college.

I was wrong.

They came in for a perfect landing. Touching down and tucking their wings with one motion. About 2/3 of the 17 birds started grazing, while the rest stood watch.

It made me realize that when you don't succeed at something the first time, maybe you should approach the problem from a different direction.

I still have all the little issues to deal with, but all of them are very small problems in the big picture of life.

Enjoy the little things God has given you and, to borrow a phrase, don't sweat the small stuff.

Later, Peeps!