Sometimes!

     My mind drifts back to an old TV commercial about candy.  Their little jingle had a line in it that went:  “Sometimes you feel like a nut!  Sometimes you don’t!”  I remember it very well.  I loved that candy (and still do!)  And yesterday I think it was being the “sometimes like a nut” kind of day

     Everything I have started yesterday (at least in my mind) had turned into a BIG scribble on the page or either had gotten crumpled up and thrown into the trash.  I don’t know exactly what it was, but that’s the way it had been going.

     I thought I could “take a break” and things would hopefully “reset” themselves and start to work out for the better.  So I got up from my desk and went into our kitchen where my wife was looking over some of the Instagram posts she had received.

     “What would you think about taking a two hour lunch with me today?”  I asked her when I entered the room.  She sort of gave me that look like “what have you done?”  You husbands know what I’m talking about.  “I’m just not getting anything done this morning and I thought a break would get me going again.”  With that comment she was agreeable to the invitation and told me to wait ten minutes while she got ready.

     TWENTY minutes later she came back and was ready to go.  Now I’m not complaining because she came back looking even more beautiful than when she left the room, but that seemed like the longest TEN MINUTES I had ever waited. We left and went to our favorite eating place, leisurely ordered our meal, and spent the better part of the two hours laughing and enjoying our company together.  When we got back home I returned to my office knowing there had been a complete turnaround from the morning dilemmas.

     However, I was wrong!  After three or four attempts to put my thoughts to paper I was already scribbling through the lines and throwing pages into the trash.  After about an hour and half of miserable attempts to get something done I finally threw up my hands in defeat and walked out of the room.

     Today I returned to my office and sat at my desk.  I picked up my favorite writing pen and began to watch as the words flowed across the paper as if they were being written all by themselves.  Before I knew it about fifteen minutes had passed and I had completed this short little article for my blog post.

     It’s true; it’s not like some of the more in-depth articles that I have posted in the past.  But those were THEN, this is NOW!  I guess it really is true:  “Sometimes you feel like a nut - - - and Sometimes you don’t!”

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"Sometimes the intelligence of some people can only be measured AFTER they speak."