🫧between calm and not

a snippet of my typical experience

I am posting an attempt I made at a writing “Mist of Moments” post, because it strikes me as amusingly representative of much of my experience—going back and forth between moments of calm and moments of not.

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I’m sitting in the car line at my kids’ school. Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” (the 10-minute version, of course) is playing in my headphones, which feels perfect, because I just saw a yellow leaf fall across my windshield.

“Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place

and I can picture it after all these days.”

It’s an exciting sight, since we’re still in the blazing end of summer and all eager for autumn.

I am feeling privileged, to be able go to work and then come pick up my children at their school…

🍁

(end of moment for writing)

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(next day)

❌

Well, today [my youngest] refused to go to preschool. ☹️ She’s upstairs at my office now. We’ll see what happens…

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