It’s January and I’m trying to “get organized”, You know
what that means: determination, frustration, dawdling. Where to start, of
course and that is with the priorities. I think about a cartoon by the Detroit cartoon artist, Guindon, called something like, “The Task”. In four small panels he began The Task as a
little lump in the corner of the room, while his funny little character
procrastinated. As the panels progressed so did The Task until it turned into a
full grown monster filling the room and terrorizing the character. I get it.
Getting Organized means getting at that annoying task before it becomes
unmanageable and even something that could consume the procrastinating
character living inside me.
The presence of a new year with its goals and resolutions
can be helpful – new clean calendars, new files for all the business of our new
year, and hopefully for us who live in the cold slow northern winter, Time to
accomplish the task of organizing.
It starts with tax receipts and gathering the important
papers for taxes. But we still haven’t cleaned the corners and surfaces and
behind the faucets and the floors all trashed from a busy holiday season. Okay
that done, let’s set up the tax table and start in. Wait, just a moment, the
seed catalogs have come in. We have to spend a little time dreaming . . . sigh
. . . lovely flowers, clever vegetable stands for very very small gardens. I do
miss the big garden of our crunchy granola days.
As garden dreams begin to fade I find myself staring at the
little black folding table that I put near the computer about two hours
ago. What’s that for? I ask myself briefly, uh-oh The Task is growing. And so
it goes. All the data from our income will be organized and sent to our able
tax accountant, but maybe one more cup of coffee, one more granola bar, one
more moment to linger on garden days.
Wishing you a great new year and smooth path through your ominous
tasks.
Helene
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