Patricia Harrelson

This morning was the first in several months that I did not have hustle to get to a job, a task, a project, or some assignment. I took my cup of tea to my desk and checked my email where I found a message that I’d been saving for weeks about the end of Bloglines. So I decided to important all of my RSS feeds to Google Reader, not that I’d been doing much blog reading lately. The import led to seeing a list of unread posts, and so feeling like I had all the time in the world, I clicked in and started reading.

I read post after post at Zen Habits about simplifying one’s life, and one about unscheduling one’s life. WOW! This message could not have been more apropos. My life is totally over-scheduled.

Then I clicked into “The Race” and read a post about my daughter-in-law losing a friend to sudden death that was incredibly poignant and tapped into a recurrent worry I’ve been having about not making the best use of my time.

As I moved back to much earlier posts at “The Race,” I found one written way back in January called “Memories.” It’s a slide show that I’d seen before but relished visiting again. At first, I was smiling but ultimately the show had me weeping with love.

Can I just say that having a free moment this morning, totally unscheduled so that I could just wander at will, led me down a very clear path to the truth about doing less and getting more.