Ellemental

I’m not a goal setter. I don’t know where I want to be in 5 years (other than to be happy and content), and I’m not particularly working toward being a better, smarter, more organized, wealthier, thinner, person. To Do lists give me the hives.

I do, however, keep a little quiet to-do list in my head. There are no tasks or tangible goals on it. There is no item on it that I want to stress out about or rush headlong to tackle. It’s simply a list of things that will complete some part of my life. I want to visit the graves of my ancestors. I want to take a creative writing class.

Sometimes I cross things off the list that I didn’t even know were ON the list until after I already experience it – things that I didn’t know would complete some part of my life. This weekend I sat outdoors, next to the Ben Franklin Bridge, under a beautiful sunset, listening to James Taylor sing Carolina in my Mind live. It wasn’t a huge part of my life that was completed that evening, but perfect moments don’t always have to be big and brash and bold, do they?