Tuesday January 26 2016  ONE HOUR AND COUNTING

My disciplines must become a bit stricter.  My hours are so limited that anything out of the ordinary puts me behind schedule.  You may say, what schedule, after all, aren’t you retired?  Well yes, we are retired, but believe me, we do have schedules.  The only thing different, is that our schedule is different each day, so must be attended rigorously to accomplish all that needs accomplishing on each given day. 

Today, for example I received a phone call.  And we talked and talked and talked.  The friend that called me from Virginia is actually more like family than “just” a friend.  She is our daughter’s, birth mother.  Our family connected with her family 10 years ago this coming October.  It was an amazing reunion and God was in it all the way.  There is such a story to be told about those first few weeks and all the years since then, but I must leave that for another time.  Besides, I would want to have our daughter’s birth mother’s permission, before I shared her story publicly.  But I will say, it has been awesome!  We don’t talk frequently, but when we do it is sometimes for hours.  Hopefully we will be seeing her and her husband sometime later this year.

When I sat down to write my blog, before she called, I had set my timer for one hour.  That was the window of time I was allowing to write my blog.  Sometimes I spend way too much time writing and must curb it somewhat.  I’m not yet so good at curbing time.  Time just has a way of getting away from me.  Attention Deficit?  I doubt it.  Probably more like Attention Concentration Overload!  I guess that could be called ACO.  Once I start concentrating on one task I am quickly and totally absorbed and time no longer matters.  That is the part I must learn to reign in.

ATTENTION CONCENTRATION OVERLOAD

By Kathleen Martens

January 26, 2016

There may be a lot on my mind

But it is all in concise little places.

And when I become ensconced completely

My mind just continually races.

Then I go from one moment to the next,

Totally oblivious to all else around.

Perfect satisfaction and fulfillment

In my heart is always found.

I need not much to be happy,

Just a good thought to think about,

And I can take a few little words

And weave a story stout.

Or I just pick my brain a bit

And think of things I know,

And come up with a story or poem

About my life from long, long ago.

Whatever suits the occasion

Seems to race from my fingertips.

And if I can’t write it,

I speak it through my lips.

And all the while time is passing,

And totally unaware am I

So that is why I am reigning in

So I can say a quicker goodbye.

So that tells my story today!  I am concentrating on ALL that must be done for the entire day.  So you will be happy to know that I intend to write shorter blogs, more concise, and more to the point, if I actually have a point.  I love writing my blogs and sometimes just forget that it may seem like a daunting task for another to read. 

Perhaps tomorrow I’ll come up with something great.  I actually have 15 minutes left over but I will sign off for tonight.  Just wanted to check in with my faithful readers. 

Good night and God bless you!

P.S.  I have some good ideas brewing for some future blogs.  I also take suggestions about what my readers like to hear more of.  Please contact me if you have any ideas.

P.S.S.  My sister-in-law sent me an email that promises that I will learn something that I did not already know and also make me say to myself, how do “they” know that?  So, if I remember to do so, I will include one of those tidbits of fact (assuming it is fact) at the end of the next few blogs.  I have not verified any of these statements to be true or false.  If you know and have verification, please let me know.

“Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.”

Now actually, I would like to know how they “THINK” they know that!