Lucky and Charmed

Doing anything other than work has become a problem for me again. What's wrong with me? How do I get myself into these situations. I must LOVE to be the hard-working, self-sacrificing hero. Perhaps I think I'm the only one who can do anything right!

I have quit working on the pipes and cardio. Can't figure out when to get to the gym. I have stopped writing my blog. I did read a book in the last month, MONTH, because I've been on planes. I have stopped cooking. Usually microwave a potato and slather it with butter and blue cheese dressing. For variety I stop at Byerly's and buy the packed sushi. I haven't called my friends because I feel guilty and I have no time to see them anyway.

This is bad. I have to get a handle on it.

Still, in the midst of working for a client on-site in West Las Vegas (where my cell phone got no signal!), I snapped these pictures out my hotel window one late afternoon. This amazing rainbow arched over the hotel and was solidly planted in a lake about 500 yards away. And then the rainbow evaporated in the desert air and a golden light made the landscape look like one of those hand-colored pictures.

In that single, jewel-toned moment, I took a deep breath and said out loud, "How lucky I am." I found my own personal pot o' gold in the light, the color and the joy of that afternoon. Sometimes, in my busyness I forget how lucky I am.