Spies And The Next Thing

What is the best advice you've ever heard and that seems to echo your life? Mine: "Everything happens for a reason and nothing happens before its time."

I've often been told that I'm a very patient soul. Maybe on the outside ;-). I'm actually a muller more than a patient anything. I mull A LOT. What others see as patience is me obsessing something in my head inside and outside and sideways until I can't tell whether I'm just plain weird. I hide it very well behind a veil of silence, and perhaps that's miscontrued as patience!

It's very tough for me to see something I want and not get it, and I don't mean material things. I can wait for those. For example, if I see a rosebud, I want to see it bloom right in front of my eyes because I don't want to miss it when it unfurls its petals. Of course, it never happens there and then, and I miss it, and the next thing I know, there is this beautiful rose all open and beautiful, and yet, I feel a bit frustrated because I missed the event I* wanted to see!

Crazy, huh? But there's a lesson in there for me. I have to learn to trust that the rosebud will open of its own accord. I can't hurry it; it will do it when it's ready. I know* how pretty it will look once it's blooming, so it's the process that I want to enjoy, and sometimes, in life, the process is happening but one just doesn't know it.

Why am I being so profound this early Tuesday morning when I should be getting ready to be uber-roofer? Mainly because I'm without coffee ;-). Also, my proposal for my next project is sitting on my editor's desk and I want to be there in New York to watch her reading it and hear her thoughts ;-). I want to see the rosebud unfurling.

And you thought this whole mulling thing was going nowhere, huh....

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