Headless chickens!!

I often dream about getting it all together one day. you know, eating well, sleeping for at least 8 hours, pacing the stress into bite sized chunks instead of huge helpings all the time, going regularly to the gym, drinking all those glasses of water we're supposed to, all that sort of thing. Lately i am not even getting one of those things right. Pace of work, too much on my plate, all these things driving me - no time to relax. My head knows this is not a good balance, I teach about balance, I should be an expert at it, but I cannot seem to get off the hamster wheel long enough to take a breath, and gain my composure.

I was thinking in the bath the other day that dead people no longer have a responsibility or have a care in the world. they do not have to get up early on cold winter mornings anymore, and they have no more of those stressful big decisions to make, about heaven or hell, or anything, but anyway, before I cause any panic about my doleful thoughts, let me reassure you that this is not a death wish, but more the thoughts of a humorous idea of the advantages of being dead - quite a few I could think of!! :) (it's my dad's fault, I think I inherited his dry sense of humour!!)_ its like the joke about the tick bird and the cow in the field - the tick bird is relishing some fat ticks and the cow says, "how can you eat those yukky things?" And the tick bird says, " Try one, you'll like it - just try it!" "you won't know if you like it until you've tried it!"

On that cheerful note, let me say I have come through another CHALLENGING week! What learning experiences I have had - growth and stretching, and working with great people!