This month, no, my life isn’t going as planned. It brings to mind a certain poem:
❝But, Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
~“To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough”, Robert Bruns, November 1785
I know. It’s not the most upbeat outlook, and Steinbeck repurposed it better, but life certainly does have a way of uprooting our carefully built nests. In response, I could get frustrated, or I could get creative. I chose the creative solution, even if it feels a bit bleak—even for me.
~Dˢ
New blog posting later tonight.
