13 thoughts on “In the Time it Takes the Kettle to Sing”

1. Beautiful. Totally hits home.

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   January 13, 2015 at 12:44 pm Reply

   • Thank you, Pat. Glad I’m not the only one! I should add having a cup of coffee with you to my list of to-dos!

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     January 14, 2015 at 10:59 am Reply

     • I agree!!

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       January 14, 2015 at 11:22 am

2. I want all those things too. If only I could wrap my head around them all and just do.

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   January 13, 2015 at 5:30 pm Reply

   • Just do. It sounds so simple, yet is so very difficult. I may need to start wearing Nikes 😉

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     January 14, 2015 at 10:58 am Reply

3. Sounds about right… Sometimes I feel like I need a Wheel of Fortune wheel with all my options that I can spin around and then commit to whatever it lands on, rather than doing 1/10th of the list of things I have in my head at any given moment.

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   January 13, 2015 at 7:18 pm Reply

   • Don’t you wish you could just pick one and get on with it? When you invent and market the mother’s wheel of fortune, I want to be the first in line! Something like that would certainly help when it feels like a pinball is pinging around my head, but the spring lacks any sort of tension to get it moving in a good direction.

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     January 14, 2015 at 10:57 am Reply

4. My mother used to say, “The more you do, the more you can do.”

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   January 14, 2015 at 10:23 am Reply

   • You know, that saying about how it’s the woman who works full-time, runs car-pool, and volunteers for PTO is the one who will bake and bring the cookies has been running through my mind lately. Makes me feel incredibly underachieving. But, if I take your mother’s saying into perspective, the more I actually get off my duff, the more I may feel like moving. The first step . . . as they say, right?

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     January 14, 2015 at 10:54 am Reply

5. Sometimes they say if you want to get something done, give the task to a busy person. I like this very much.

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   January 15, 2015 at 9:37 am Reply

   • Glad you like the poem; I don’t want any more to do, though! Ha!

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     January 15, 2015 at 9:43 am Reply

6. Me, too.
   I so, so, so want
   to have the mental energy to do

   Well said. Well written. Thank you.

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   January 19, 2015 at 1:42 pm Reply

   • Glad I can capture that emotion or state of being. So so so.

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     January 20, 2015 at 2:50 pm Reply