What's the Hurry?

Taken yesterday.

You can't tell very well, but the lamp was on

in the middle of the afternoon on that dark part of campus.

(Click and you can tell. And photos are always better when you click ya know!)

I have to turn this camera in tomorrow

(it was given me to use for Geological Photography class).

My old one is broken, so I don't know what I'll do now.

It's no fun blogging without pictures.

So, maybe I'll recycle some or look through files

for photos I haven't yet used. (There are a lot of recent ones.)

I had to do a lot of walking today. A lot.

A mile to here. A mile to there.

Then back over here. Then home.

Then another mile to this place.

Yet another mile to class.

Then home to stay at last.

That’s how it went today.

And all of that walking takes a lot of time.

At one point in the day, I thought,

“I have two finals to study for!

I don’t have time for all of this walking today.”

And I started ripping down the street

with steely-minded focus on my next destination.

Then I decided that this is no way to live my life

(life is made up of its minutes, after all, even if

those minutes take place walking to get somewhere).

So, I slowed down and looked around.

I got thankful, and to steal that old, tired cliché—

I focused on the journey and not the destination.

Like this:

I really do live in a pleasant neighborhood.

I’m getting lots of exercise!

It’s lovely walking across our picturesque campus.

The damp-sharp, crisp air feels lovely, too,

when bundled up warmly and walking briskly.

While walking, I occasionally see

one of those sweet late-autumn trees—

those little trees that are entirely barren

except for just a handful of earnest, colorful leaves

spaced evenly around their branches.

The leaves might cling, and I appreciate them,

but it’s inevitable—their life-season is ending.

And that’s the way it goes, right?

But while we’re in the space God put us,

we really should do our thing with all of our colorful might.

Like those bright little leaves.

Just had to remove something that was here

when I originally posted.

Some of you already read it.

But it just seemed too braggy!

Which is not okay. :-))

But it ended with this:

Encourage someone today. Every day!

You really don’t know how much they might need it.

And now, it's time to study for tomorrow morning's final!