Tearing the cellophane off a fresh new month, I realize 2024 is now half over and there are so many questions.

   Where did the time go? 

   What haven’t I done?

   What was I thinking?

   When the year began not that long ago (six months to be exact) I had many plans. I had things to do (or things to be done), yet many of those tasks, projects, or obligations remain in a restless state. 

   It surprises me. 

   I thought I would have accomplished more by now than I actually have. 

   I am reminded, over and over, how much is still incomplete.

   As I try to do things, again and again, I know I need to think more about what remains.

   Summer, really, has just begun; yet that is but half of the seasons. For now, I will concentrate on the only one that really matters, right now at least.

   We have longer days before us for another good month (at least). That itself seems like a reason to finish what I started and begin more things on my to-do list.

   I would like the think now of the six months ahead, instead of the half dozen already behind me. Somehow it seems like it allows for more time that I can make mine.

07/01/2024                                                                                                  j.g.l.