deep breaths...

things are slowing down a little. tonight's time-sucker at the ADF has been cancelled, and i'm planning on doing a little yoga with sarah instead. that'll be good. breathe in, breathe out...

while i was out running around doing errands this morning i made a new resolution for myself: every day i'm going to try to make a point to talk to someone totally different from me. even if it's just a quick two sentence exchange, i'm going to try to reach out a little.

today i was standing in line at the downtown post office when a big black man with dreadlocks down to his waist came in stood in line behind me. he had a cup of coffee in his hand that smelled amazing and i just turned to him, smiled, and said so. he grinned and it was espresso. "from blue coffee?" i asked. "yes," he said, "it's called 'eye opener'." "oh, i think i'm going to have to make a stop there on my way to work!" then it was my turn to step up to the window to send my package and that was it.

that little connection with someone new felt good. i'm going to strive for that every day. maybe next time it'll be a conversation with a kid or something. i dunno. perhaps if everyone did this the world would be a better place. at least the post office would.