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Greetings!
The first 31 days of the new year are behind
us. How have your goals and aspirations
fared? Year after year, many people resolve
to take more time with family and friends.
Their desire springs from love. Now that
Valentine’s Day is drawing near, maybe it’s
time to find new ways to capture more time
you want for what (and who) you love. You’ll
find some of my thoughts on time--for love
and everything else--in this issue.
I am a Louisiana native so I'm looking
forward to Mardi Gras on Feb 20. Here are the Creole Cowboys playing one
of my all time zydeco favorites: Motor Dude
Special. Allons danser, y’all!
Mardi
Gras is
the last big party before forty days of Lent.
As such, it’s a juxtaposition of frivolity
with serious reflection. In the spirit of the
season, I invite you to dance on over to the
Catholic Charities Archidioscese of New
Orleans (CCANO) website. Bearing a
four-star rating from Charity
Navigator, CCANO is one of the largest
health and human service providers for the
Louisiana Gulf Coast. Mardi Gras seems like a
good time to celebrate one’s good fortune by
sharing it with someone else. Laissez
les bons temps rouler!
Peace be with you,
Tara
P.S. On MardiGras (aka Fat Tuesday, Feb
20), check
out my blog for a special treat!
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Time for Love...And Everything Else
Recently, I decided I wanted to work only 40
hours each week. When I told my husband about
my decision, he laughed and asked me what I
was going to do with the extra 10 or 15 hours
a week. I was flabbergasted. I don’t work
that much, I thought. Then I started
keeping track of how much time I was
working...and found I was putting in eleven or
twelve hours every day plus eight or ten on
the weekends. Oh.
I’m really blessed: I enjoy my work. The
problem is there’s no sense of completion.
Without a sense of completion, work is never
finished. It’s always sitting there, waiting
to be done. I behave like a person lost in
the wilderness, plunging blindly ahead in an
attempt to get to an end point that is always
tantalizing just out of reach. For the people
and activities I love, there’s always the
sense that I’ll get to them at some
unspecified “later.” Later--when the work is
done. But what if there is no later?
Imagine that this weekend is it--the last
one. Or that this Valentine’s Day is the last
one you’ll have with someone you love. If
this was “it,” what would you do? How would
you spend your time? Your time is your most
important currency, far more valuable than
your bank account. You cannot save your time
for later. There is no later. There is only now.
When you are gone from this world (and yes,
someday you will be), people will not look at
your life and say, “Look how hard she
worked!” or “Look how much he accomplished!”
Instead, they’ll say, “I wish we’d had more
time together.”
Therefore, I beg you to take time for what
you love. Turn off your cell phone, stop
checking email, leave the Blackberry behind.
Set aside five minutes to be still and quiet.
Be present in the here and now. Trust me, the
work will be there later but time will not.
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