Here I sit typing brief thoughts before the onslaught of cooking, entertaining, celebrating. Why do I do what I do? Decide we should cook & decorate for the the after-wedding reception ourselves instead of hire it done? True, Mary Dawn has baked many cupcakes and made the salads and salsa verde, but it still remains for us to finish cooking the meat, the guacamole, the last batch of cake, the icing, the decorating, etc.

I should be grading papers, writing a memoir, answering mail, or should I? Should I not be exactly where I'm at? For it's here God has planted me and it's here I will grow.