April 4, 2006

  • I'm feeling entirely energized for Spring this morning.  (It was rough being a cast-out dreamland warrior running through the Winter and I'm glad to now abandon that role.)  


     


    Is every life not a story worthy of record?  I must believe so!  Otherwise, how can one find the courage to dance this dance of life?! 


     


    So yesterday when I left my 'regular job' (govt.-type web security guy) and proceeded to go do some 'kitchen work' (side-job painting bedrooms, but in this case, installing the home wireless network, too), I had the opportunity to help a little old lady open two cans of chili.  Now that may not seem momentous story-wise, but you see, this woman is the mother of the woman I'm painting for and she has just moved in with her mother (in fact, I refinished an entire bedroom in anticipation of her move-in).  Well, her daughter wasn't home and mom wanted to prepare chili for dinner but had no clue how to use some new-fangled can opener.  So while I was wandering through the house with my laptop assessing the signal strength of the wireless network I just established, mom told me of her dilemmathat she had been trying for over an hour to open the cans without successand she petitioned me for assistance.  It turned out that the can opener was indeed strangecutting the top off from the side of the can instead of the traditional cut 'down'and it had me confounded, too, for a time.  But I persevered.  And triumphed!  And I became an instant hero in mom's eyes:  supper, after all, could now proceed.


     


    I was just thrilled to help and see her mom's eyes light up with "our success".  I guess this story is really mom's story over finding joy in little things, little victories.  As for me, a man almost never feels more manly than when mastering a foreign tool.  ha!


     


    For some reason (not fully self-analysed), relating the little ditty above reminded me to remain mindful of the wisdom imparted by e.e cummings below:


     


    "Life,for eternal us,is now;and now is much too busy being a little more than everything to seem anything,catastrophic included."

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