Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Wednesday July 19, 2006 - Year 4, Day 120 - full plate equals clean slate
10C/50F, sunny & calm, walk uneventful, joggers grunt something inaudibly resembling good morning
full plate equals clean slate, to me, means that the plate & the slate are distinctly different things, even though I let a full plate of ‘things to do’, distractions & competing values consume my energy – all the while, my slate is clean – my agenda to explore new opportunities & ways of doing things is ready to be written upon
today is a plate clearing day; some items to devour, a few to savour, some to pass along & some to trash – today is every day
tomorrow, just like today, can be a clean slate day; a clean slate to do things differently, approach things differently - far less difficult to do than it first appears
full plate equals clean slate – my oxymoronic attempt to bring two ideas together; like too many cars for too few lanes at rush hour, too many little things on my plate make it hard to see my plate but that is just temporary as each item removed from the confusion reveals a clean slate, a blank slate, a clean plate
his struggling leaves little opportunity for stepping back to see the whole picture; I met with an old (the friendship, not the friend) friend yesterday – he struggles with several things on his plate – pushing hard, working hard, caring hard, loving hard – he finds it hard to deal with the things he cannot control – which is everything - except for his own choices about how to see things & how he directs his own energy; nothing else is controllable, nothing else will let him see a clean plate or a clean slate
today is every day
Mark
full plate equals clean slate, to me, means that the plate & the slate are distinctly different things, even though I let a full plate of ‘things to do’, distractions & competing values consume my energy – all the while, my slate is clean – my agenda to explore new opportunities & ways of doing things is ready to be written upon
today is a plate clearing day; some items to devour, a few to savour, some to pass along & some to trash – today is every day
tomorrow, just like today, can be a clean slate day; a clean slate to do things differently, approach things differently - far less difficult to do than it first appears
full plate equals clean slate – my oxymoronic attempt to bring two ideas together; like too many cars for too few lanes at rush hour, too many little things on my plate make it hard to see my plate but that is just temporary as each item removed from the confusion reveals a clean slate, a blank slate, a clean plate
his struggling leaves little opportunity for stepping back to see the whole picture; I met with an old (the friendship, not the friend) friend yesterday – he struggles with several things on his plate – pushing hard, working hard, caring hard, loving hard – he finds it hard to deal with the things he cannot control – which is everything - except for his own choices about how to see things & how he directs his own energy; nothing else is controllable, nothing else will let him see a clean plate or a clean slate
today is every day
Mark
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