Musing...

It snowed most of yesterday; a wet, heavy snow that clung to everything and threatened to take out power lines and down fences. Been a strange winter around here, and not much of one, either. It's like everything is a month behind for the whole past year.

I think I have to work on thinking a little different way. Instead of thinking I'm perpetually behind on everything (which I *am*), I need to be okay with "this is where I am". I have no idea why I set my own standards so much higher than what I would ever expect of someone else. And is being aware of your own strengths and weaknesses a good thing?

One of my closest friends often gently reminds everyone that "we're doing the best we can". Are we? I see how easily it is to slip into being a sheeple, whether we want to or not, and especially if we're not paying attention to what our natural world around us is conveying/doing. No matter how much we try to insulate ourselves from the dangers and challenges of the "natural world", Mother Earth's whims are still going to come along and remind us to *pay attention!*. Not a bad thing, I'm a thinking.

Well, I've begun the day waxing philosophical, but for me that's part of the "balance" of striving to live what I believe.

How easy it is to forget that this moment is all we really have.