Not Lost

I lost this ring almost three years ago.

Three years!! After a day full of running allllll the errands and doing allllll housework as September started and life felt “slightly” back to “normal”, while somehow completely changed💗(If you do the math, maybe you’ll remember too )

I was driving down the road, looked down at my hands on the steering wheel, and this ring was gone.

I had just gotten it as an anniversary gift a few short months before. The cold temperature change as summer began to draw to a close clearly showed that it didn’t fit.

It has gone flying off and out of my hands somewhere along the way that day.

(Again, like so much that year.)

Now three years later (almost) while taking time to organize a few things, as always, in short, stolen minutes that are always still surrounded by family, I sorted and purged kind of casually, reached into the bottom of my unmentionables drawer, and there it was.

I didn’t even recognize it at first.

And when I did I gasped out loud. The ring I had thought was lost was just sitting there, hidden in a drawer that I use all the time.

The same drawer that I told my friend I’d clean out four or five months ago. The one that still had nursing bras in and it made me laugh out loud just to remember.

“I don’t have time” is always a response but never a reason.

I don’t want to really is.

So what it is that you don’t want to do right now but want to want to do?
Maybe stop wanting and just do it.

You might find just the right thing.
Something you thought was lost.
Something that gives a nod and celebrates both
what has passed and what’s still to come.

Something that didn’t fit for a while.

Was it a manuscript?
A dream?
A career?
A pursuit?
A longing?
A person?
That you forgot, and forgot how, to love.
That you set aside, thought that you might never find again. But now here it’s where your heart sings, as it comes back again.

You see what was lost was really not. Just found and set aside
For another day
Like today,

But now it ✨fits ✨and even more is timed, perfectly.
(Or just about perfect, because, really what is perfect , anyway, but what already IS.)

Can wait to hear what you thought was “lost” and that you find too.

Xoxo 🥂🙌🏻☀️