more normal than not

There was a bee in my mail Jeep the other day.

That happens a lot.

I’m a bee magnet.

I’m a sitting duck.

But….on the other hand, it’s a beautiful sign of the warmth that Spring brings when the bees are back.

It is….a good thing.

The bee flew around the back of the Jeep….desperate to get out….and, finally, after lowering all the windows and pushing it towards freedom with some of the mail I was preparing to deliver, I got it out of the Jeep and back in the breeze.

Before it flew out, I thought, “this bee is going to sting me because it can’t figure out how to get free….”

How to get free.

Of course, because I have too much time on my hands while I’M DOING MY JOB….I thought that we all tend to want to bite or sting when we panic over how we’re going to escape.

The most agitated and disappointed people are sometimes the angriest over what they perceive as an inability to get “free”.

We’re all living lives of “quiet desperation”, though….right?

We need to get free of the things that agitate us.

We need to get free so that we don’t bite or sting the innocent people around us.

We need to know that we aren’t “trapped”.

It was just a bee.

A bee who wanted desperately to be free.

I need to figure out how to encourage the people around me to realize that they aren’t trapped.

I need to live a life that exhibits the best example of “being free”.

I need to keep my mind limber and expansive and…..free.

I need to set the bees free.

Free?

Sounds good to me.

Another creative way to beat the high cost of a mortgage or rent.

Happy Easter!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzxLv8gJb1o

Here’s a couple with a nose ring and a great dog who are traveling around South America.

Dang them.

No….bless them.

That’s a good thing to be doing.

Put that on my bucket list.

But….wait….A BUCKET LIST IS SOMETHING THAT YOU TICK OFF WHEN YOU’RE DYING, RIGHT?!

I need to start working on some kind of bucket list.

I don’t know when it’s going to happen….but….it’s going to happen someday.

I mean, both making a bucket list….and….the other thing.

Time is wasting.

I spent the evening under two of our cars yesterday….and could have been wrenching on more of them.

Greasy….tired….(TIRED!!)…wrenching….

That isn’t an item on my bucket list.

You don’t put “practical” things on a bucket list.

But….you do the things you have to do NOW so that later….you can do the things you want to do.

Denzel Washington said that.

I’d like to sit at a restaurant with my family and our Great Pyrenees….eating a meal at a foreign altitude/latitude….enjoying life….blowing out the candles on every cake.

I don’t think that Appa would be as well-mannered as Occy, though.

I’d like to fix the cars in a way that would let me take a break from….fixing the cars.

I’d like to recognize that I have a hand in steering the direction that our lives take….both good and bad.

What’s a good shore to point towards?

Which way is the wind blowing?

Is it easier with the wind at our backs?

I’ll bet that it is.

The easy choice….could be easy…with the wind on my side.

Blow on, wind.