Here in the mountains, Spring came early. Or is it better to say the normal Winter never really showed up? I tell all the disappointed skiers that it’s my fault. For the first time ever, I bought snow tires. And now I’m having to scramble to get new tires put on because you cannot run snow tires on warm asphalt or concrete. It ruins them.
And of course there’s the whole “horse thing”. My horse doesn’t respond well to frigid temps and elk eating his hay in his paddock. He frets, he stresses, he gets ulcers. So I moved him down to the Front Range for the winter. Alas – he could’ve stayed here. I would not have had to drive 2 1/2 hours each way just to go down to ride him . . . . and ruin the snow tires (see above!!)
Of course, with lots of time in the car, I am able to listen to my Audible, and try to get caught up on my “reading” by listening to the books in the library. I still have “unread” books on there that last 18+ hours, because I used to make the drive between Texas and Colorado twice a year. Now that I live in the mountains, it’s hard to get through those long ones so I listen to shorter ones. And last week I listened to one called Dusty Bibles.
I picked it because it was only a couple of hours long. To be honest, I do not have any recollection of buying that title or why I added it to my list to begin with. But it fit the required time I needed while in the car. So I listened. It’s an interactive read – at the end of every chapter it gives you an assignment of something to do. I was unable to do that since I was driving BUT I did have a “take away” from it that I really liked and wanted to share.
“Silence forces reflection. Reflection forces reckoning“
As the book title implies, if something is “dusty” in your life, maybe it’s time to clean it up and make a change. Pay attention. Attend to what needs attending to. On this weeks drive down the mountain, maybe I’ll have some silent time to reflect?
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