Not Enough Hours In A Day

Ever seem like you have so much to do until there are not enough hours in the day? Welcome to my month.

The month of May is starting off in high speed. I have two graduates this year and preparation for graduation day has begun. I will need two new outfits that make me look slimmer and shoes to match. I get to attend my first wedding where the groom is from India. I am looking forward to that. There are farewell dinners and award ceremonies to sit through and least we forget; my garden where weeds take every chance to get a drop on me and grow.

I am tired before I begin. Thoughts of dieting cross my mind but I need those extra calories to keep me going. I have recently made friends with McDonald's Mocha Frappe.

I have to say there is something exciting about the graduation season. People heading off to new beginnings just like my garden and its newness each year. I walk out each day witnessing the unexpected mingled with the expected. It is those surprises that make me smile.

Even though it is human nature to fear the unknown, it is sometimes the unknown that brings us the most joy.

I had, amonst all of the downpours, two new roses to bloom for the first time in my garden. No mater the picture on the label of the dormant bareroot plant, the actuall blooming of the rose bush is surprising and unique the first time you see the rose in bloom. Most of the time, the bloom is not what I was expecting. But as I gaze at it for the first time, it is beautiful just the way it is.

I hope all of those graduating, leaving what they know and have become accustomed to and comfortable with, face the newness of change in the same way with the same novelty. Your future may not be exactly what you expected or the picture people have painted for you, but after a long gaze I hope you find it beautiful because you are a part of it.