Fishing for Contentment

October 17

FISHING FOR CONTENTMENT

Fishing for contentment is a wonderful pastime but what is used for bait?  Is there a delicacy to dangle before contentment to lure it into my life?  Can I crumble the best biscotti and leave a trail to my door?  I don’t believe contentment swims around waiting to be caught.  I think it’s more like the wild yeast that finds its way to my starter.  If I put the ingredients in my life, contentment will rise to the occasion.

Renew your own understanding of the word NO.

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Where do I live?

Fleeter of foot is my goal.

I race to catch the prize thoroughbreds as they flee.

I play chase, I win, I lose, I fall in the mud, I break my leg.

None of this does anything for the horses either,

they are loose and confused;

off  like a shot, but nowhere to go.

I buy better shoes, hire a trainer,

put reflective tack on the stallions and the mares.

In short I go broke.

I had the world of possibilities before me and it ran away;

all because I didn’t close the barn door.