Day 15...The wisdom of Pooh...

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I have done pretty well today, but tomorrow will be even better. I exercised, etc... nothing spectacular, but fine. I think getting back into a routine will be good. I hate sending the kids back to school. But this has been a particularly boring summer for Seth, anyway, and I'm ready to get back to work on things I have let slide.

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I haven't read my Bible yet, so my inspiration will have to be Pooh. I just finished one of those amazingly vapid Facebook quizzes, written by 15 year olds with no life experience and a severe lack of training in the area of grammar and spelling. This, Katie would tell me, is one of the many reasons the Facebook world should be limited to college students. This particular quiz was supposed expose, based on something like 6 questions, which Winnie the Pooh character I am most like. And how can you go wrong with a Pooh Bear quiz?? It determined that I am most like (drumroll, please).... Pooh. (I love being the protagonist! AND cute and cuddly...) To really get into the proper spirit of the thing, I looked up some of my favorite Pooh quotes...

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This one kind of summarizes ME:

"" I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit."No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way." "

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Does that happen to normal people? Things make so much sense when I begin them and look so ridiculous once I am fully involved, even to me. Or it will SEEM like it makes sense until someone points out to me why it doesn't. Oh well...I suppose that is from not being able to look ahead well.

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"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh," he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing, " said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw, "I just wanted to be sure of you.""

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Now, first, I must point out that there are few passages I have read where sidling sounds as pleasant and enjoyable. Generally, I don't want to be considered a sidler. But Piglet sidling up to Pooh really is a sweet image. I can relate to Piglet here (even though I am supposed to be Pooh.) I need considerable reassurance, about EVERYTHING. Drives Mark crazy. I pretty regularly sidle up behind Mark and do the same thing, figuratively if not literally. I do it to my friends, sometimes, too. Or if I don't do it, I want to. I guess I AM a sidler. Too bad sidling doesn't burn more calories!!

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""I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.""

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Definitely!! The What is so much less important than the Who. I think this ALL the time. But not about Piglet. :) Replace the name "Piglet" with one of several others and there you have a window into my brain at times. It's scary isn't it? I really AM a bear of very little brain.

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"Poetry and hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you."

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I think this is rather a picturesque and romantic notion, with which I fully agree.

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"When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out." Sage advice on any day, and quite applicable to part of my LIMFAC rebellion, huh? This one obviously completes the thought, "A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise." Hmm. No comment there.