this morning i am smiling because it has just occurred to me that i can put some gel insoles in my slippers, slippers i wear around the cabin during the morning and evening — which cabin has a cement floor and may not be the best for my ageing knees.
writing at my desk, making notes wherever i am during the day, i spend time trying to wrestle the big ideas to the ground (though i don't waste much time on the questions that can never be answered) and i consider it worthy of my time, but the things i do that cheer me in the moment are more the little things — the things that improve and perfect my personal life. that is the best antidote i have found for the general malaise of our changing times. that is the balance i need in order to confront the big ones, which so often seem, sadly, to be retrograde.
