“Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
– Annie Dillard
Every day I make a list
and methodically
go from the top down
completing and checking off
each item, each task
in turn.
And at the end of the day
I take my finished list
and throw it away.
And the next day
I make another.
But at the end
of my Big To Do List
with everything checked off,
completed,
I still don’t know
who I am
or why I am here.
Well, I’m not really at the end of my Big To Do List. At least hope not, though there is always the stray lightening bolt, or the unseen bus speeding around some corner. I’m hoping somewhere more in the middle, yet I think this still works.
