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I
bought books this week. Yes, I mean a serious purchase. As I
checked out, the CWAP (Clerk with Attitude Plus) looked first at
the books, then at me, then back and forth again until I felt a
need to explain. "I'm pregnant. Išm reading for two."
I
donšt know whether it was my seemingly corrugated face or my
Social Security check, but he brazenly rolled his eyes then
counted the books. In a bit of a caustic tone he questioned,
"Eleven ... plus a novel?"
So
I added, "Perhaps it's twins."
January
and February are Nature's gift to us as a time to read and to plan
our year. These months are given freely as kudos for fighting
through two months of holidays with meals and parties and
relatives and cleaning and sprucing the house and feeling lousy
because we didnšt have a gift for every person on the planet even
though we spent enough to come close.
Seed
catalogs appear in the mailbox and give us the opportunity to plan
our gardens; what we will harvest in summer and fall. Books give
us seeds of opportunity to plan the garden of our lives; what we
will harvest as we grow.
Who
do we want to be by this time next year? How do we want to feel
about ourselves this time next year? What do we want to accomplish
by this time next year?
If
wešve answered those questions, the answers are our goals. Now
all we need is a plan for the spaces in the garden; the spaces for
the seeds of opportunity to bloom.
Read
Dream
Plan
The
Rev, friend of Zen
Sonja Contois
Sonja
is Minister of The Wisdom Center in Black Mountain, NC and you can
visit her website at www.thewisdomcenter.us.
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