I do observe, but I could do more of it and do it better. I will not however beat myself up about it , but will enjoy the process.
To use all your senses to appreciate the wonders of the World.
I stepped accidently on a snail today, it’s been very wet here and there have been a lot wondering backwards and forwards on the paths. I heard the crunch and realised immediately what had happened. There was nothing I could do.
It was a sad sight, and although they are not the gardeners friend they are an amazing feat of physiology and engineering. That is a detail worth remembering, not with regret but with admiration.
The deceased snail will be food for something else and the calcium and other minerals from it’s shell will seep into the soil and will provide nutrition and structure to it.
There is something severely upsetting about using a hashtag in a prompt for a story. So, I am replying to
“What’s Your Number One Priority for Tomorrow?”
The above picture shows what mostly not to do.
It’s alright to drink a small black coffee to energise you if it helps, or perhaps any stimulating tea that you like. This is a good start and fills the time while you ponder your next move. The pondering is the important bit.
After drinking your favourite beverage. You may help your meandering thoughts by clearing your desk if you have one, if you don’t then consider yourself lucky , you have less dusting and more free time to ponder on your next move.
Tomorrow will come soon enough, and once it has arrived then your options will change, as the demands of the day begin to gel into something more substantial and what seemed a priority ,will fade into obscurity.
Yes, we can look forward and plan, but the car may breakdown, the cat may go missing and the lorry that you always thought was driven too fast when making deliveries has finally demolished the neighbours house.
But for now that is not your concern, enjoy the moment of contemplation, savour your dreams and aspirations, there is nothing to say they will or will not happen in the future.
Prioritise to celebrate whatever happens. Being part of this big World, and interacting with it and trying to solve it’s many challenges is the beauty of arriving at it’s next morning. Don’t rush it , breathe and look at everything with wonder. Your thoughts of yesterday are still with you, but reality is what you are dealing with now.
Working hard is not a bad thing as long as it doesn’t kill you.
It’s madness to be obsessed by work and it will lead to destruction for either yourself or others
Work can be enjoyable and the thrill of achieving a goal particularly as part of a team is a brilliant feeling and should be recognised a such.
To work hard is so much better than shirking hard. We are only as good as our slowest team member and if that person chooses to do anything but the task they are appointed, then the hard work will feel a waste of time for everyone and the results will be much harder won.
If you are a hard worker and prefer or need to work alone , then that is your prerogative, but most achievements need a team, and it’s fun. A lone wolf worker obsessing is a danger to everyone as they lose their perspective.
As the great CS Lewis once intimated to his step son when the young lad apologised for interrupting his writing.
” Interruptions are good, it’s the interruptions that make life”,
So working hard is good and necessary some time, but we should always be aware of those around us and their part in our hard work.
If a trait is a quality,then, from it’s grammar definition , is it an adjective or some other grammarly term that is beyond me at the moment?
Please hold that thought ,I will investigate it later. Perhaps you already know the answer and you can advise me.
However , as I have many traits I value,I will have to say I value my traitiness. (Oh dear I’ve just had one of those horrible red line things).Never mind “Traitiness” it is.
List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.
The two most irritatingly economic priorities in the global western world.Writing lists and earning money are again the themes of the WordPress daily prompt.My we are an aspirational lot aren’t we?
Still ,I have let the heavy chains of economic discipline go and have floated to the surface of my tank and am breathing fresh air and here are my thoughts.
Firstly a choreographer, so I can encourage and develop fantastic dance moves and expressions of emotions and feelings through dance for everyone in the World.Make Dance not War would be my Brand logo.
Secondly ,Comforter,to everyone and everything in this World suffering pain and discomfort.A relief worker to make genuine relief possible.I suppose it’s a dream because there is only so much one person can do,so I think this job would develop into a recruiter of comforters,with the object of having a worldwide buddy system.
Thirdly,Storyteller,because we all need stories to get through the day.
What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?
I am not proud,it’s not in my cultural background to have pride.Indeed pride,if not the actual sin of vanity ,negates my view that the best thing about my cultural background is indeed my ingrained belief in multiculturalism.
That’s not to say that my background ,environmental influences and genetics have not given me many interesting and valuable traits that inherently define me. Nothing wrong with that.
The most valuable trait is however the ability to accept and understand all the other cultures that exist and to respect them and in turn to gain the respect of other cultures by being respectful of their beliefs.
That is ingrained in me and makes me strong not weak. A vulture will pick at carrion for its’ survival, but carrion is dead.Culture is alive and kicking ;we should embrace it and respect it for what it is Culture.
Can you imagine Joyce trying to write a sentence in WordPress.He’d have thrown his computer across the room.
The rhythm of language he devised would be ruined by the orange and blue lines and corrections indicating the errors in grammar or spelling.
If he’d have turned on the AI corrections for a laugh he would have been rolling around the floor in hysterics at the ridiculousness of the suggestions.
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