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Countdown Update
And the first snow of the season
The rocket is on the launch pad and all systems are go when suddenly, in the countdown from ten to zero and then lift-off the countdown suddenly stops at one. Just one day away from The Big Day and the countdown is aborted. Suddenly we are thrust back to number eight in the countdown.
The lift-off has been postponed for one week!
So close! So close! I swear I could smell it I was so close!
But then I am yanked back to day number eight! Another week of counting down the days.
Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
Seriously, I think it’s a good thing. It is just a little adjustment, a calibration, performed to keep things aligned with that element of mojo known as, ‘perfect timing.’
‘Perfect timing’ can seem so elusive yet it happens all the time.
Today was a gorgeous autumn day! All the ingredients were there; the chill in the air, leaves falling from trees, the slant of the sun, the geese honking in the sky above, the feeling in my bones…
The official weather prognosticators are saying that tomorrow we are expected to get one to two inches of snow. I try not to listen to prognosticators but this pronouncement really stuck in my craw. As I looked out upon…
