Hello from the Slob Sisters. If you are a sidetracker, you're in good company! We think Mother Nature is the ultimate sidetracker and we think that spring is proof that She is one of us. A sidetracked person gets into a mess primarily because of too many choices. What happens to us when we have too many options? We get confused. We waste time trying to decide. We're like a Russian peasant at Costco. Overwhelmed. We get depressed because we can't decide what to do, where to do it, when to do it, or why to do it, and we get pressure from those who wait for our decisions.
We think Mother Nature has ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). In the spring She has too many options at her disposal and, like us, She gets into some real messes. Just look at what we have to go through every spring while She decides what to do. One minute she's charming daffodil and crocus buds up through the bark durst and the next minute she's staging dramatic snow storms, testing the survivorship of Her delicate flowers. Witha whim, She over-costumes all the cherry and plum trees, then with the wave of her hand, She sends hurricane force winds, blowing the petals everywhere. On a hunch, She orchestrates thunder, lightning, hail, then apologizes by throwing in a rainbow and just when we think She's through, She produces floods and frost, and turns young men's fancies into the ultimate distraction.
Let's celebrate our sidetracked natures. If Mother Nature can get away with it, so should we. This season, let's put our full attetnion on the distractions of this time of years. Let's let spring seduce us into just being. Let's use this time in 1997 and go along with each day using our Divine gift of flexibility. Every day let's recognize the new life all around us. Play with a litter of puppies or kittens. Let a calf chew your foot. Scoop up a handful of fluffy chick, cuddle a bunny, run with a colt. Hod your children just a little longer than you think you have time to and watch them play with no worry about tomorrow as they enjoy the sacred play away the spring of their lives. Don't miss the sounds of robins in the early morning hours. Get outside at dawn, walk around the block and take in the intoxicating scent of spring in the morning. Let's pay attention to new ideas that pop into our minds giving us hope, inspiration, joy, and comfort. Let's decide to flow with as amany moments and collect as many impressions as we can, so that when next winter comes, we can look back on the Spring of 1997 as the best spring ever. Move over Mother Nature, we're coming through!
We're planning a Convention of S.L.O.B.s (Spontaneous, Lighthearted, Optimistic and Beloved) for the summer of 1998. In order to be part of our three day conference here in the Pacific Northwest, you must be a subscriber to Keeping in Touch, our tape of the month club. We will be announcing the date a place on an upcoming tape. This time together will give you a chance to meet other WONDERFUL women just like you. We'll take you to the mountains and the ocean. We'll eat, drink and be merrily sidetracked for three fabulous days. You'll return home refreshed, with a new resolve to get organized and simplify your life.