March 12, 2021
How often do you wake up completely disconnected from the day? You stare at Google Calendar bewildered by the date. Didn’t we just start the New Year? It’s already spring! How? Maybe it’s just me but Friday’s no longer carry that vibrant fun atmosphere of accomplishment “We did it! Break out the weekend!” As for Monday’s? Because many of us work seven days a week. Damn Covid changed our working habits. Survival is never saying, “No.” How did we get to this day already? Are we walking a straight line or spinning inside an out of control circle? Ultimately it’s our decision to turn this day into a revision or allow it to have its own identity. Yep, a choice. Like trying to answer, “What would you like for lunch?” Days are nothing more than dots on a map. I’ve been a daily writer since July 1994. I have everything put on paper. Everything. Do you know what twenty seven years of writing looks like? Six air tight boxes. That’s it. But don’t ask me to pick them up. The boxes are extremely heavy. Days of the week. Dots on a map. And on your journey what have you learned? It only feels like we’ve been everywhere. And if you have. Congratulations! Have you turned it into a tool? The greatest thing about arriving into a new day is getting another opportunity to learn something new. Have you turned your personal walk into a set of tools? To be used by others beyond your next touch. Making your moments a well-studied path like that of Jane Goodall. My heart tells me that she probably never woke up to a new day wondering, “How did it become this day already?” I’ve got nothing to back that claim but I spent some time with Dr. Gabby Wild the other day. A global veterinarian. National Geographic has embraced her presence by sharing her experiences in books. To teach young minds. To inspire closed souls to reopen. We spoke of Jane Goodall. Deeply. Because Dr. Gabby got to take care of the chimpanzee’s that Jane Goodall studied. Daily. If you run a food truck, stock the shelves at a grocery store, build computers, study cancer drive a school bus or host acoustic live music concerts on a lake. What’s your story? Share it or someone will write it for you. They’re not gonna get it right. Because only you experienced it.