Not Quite Ready; Scenes from the Journey, vol. 23, no. 12

Not Quite Ready

Well, is anyone ever ready?

No matter what it is,

are we ever ready for it?

Perhaps that’s a good thing.

Who wants to live perpetually expecting

the next thing,

whether it is catastrophe

or an occasion of elation?

Oh yes. I forgot.

The instruction

we might want to follow is:

Be. Here. Now.

And that pretty much precludes

making yourself ready

for the next big hit.

Thus we return to “not quite ready”

with its implication of an awareness of

“something to be ready for”

and at the same time that

“not quite”

keeps us from obsessing about what’s next.

Keep it simple.

Just be, as I've already told you,

here now.

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Not Quite Ready; Scenes from the Journey, vol. 23, no. 12

Not Quite Ready

Well, is anyone ever ready?

No matter what it is,

are we ever ready for it?

Perhaps that’s a good thing.

Who wants to live perpetually expecting

the next thing,

whether it is catastrophe

or an occasion of elation?

Oh yes. I forgot.

The instruction

we might want to follow is:

Be. Here. Now.

And that pretty much precludes

making yourself ready

for the next big hit.

Thus we return to “not quite ready”

with its implication of an awareness of

“something to be ready for”

and at the same time that

“not quite”

keeps us from obsessing about what’s next.

Keep it simple.

Just be, as I've already told you,

here now.

Copyright (c) 2026 Ann Tudor 

Musings blog: http://www.scenesfromthejourney.blogspot.com
ListenandLive: http://www.listenandlive.com/
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Lunch; Scenes from the Journey, vol. 23, no. 11

Lunch

There’s a lot more to life than lunch.

There’s poetry, for example.

I know this is true, though you couldn’t prove it

by my actions.

On any given day, lunch is the nearest I get

to poetry.

Thoughts of lunch fill my quiet moments:

What’s on tap?

What leftovers or perishables demand

to be eaten before rot sets in?

Beyond all that, what calls to me?

What do I want to cook?

Even more important, what do I want to eat?

Toast for breakfast means

no bread for lunch---not even

the sourdough French stick I made on the weekend.

A Bowl, perhaps.

Cooked mixed grains at the bottom,

with strata of chickpeas, cherry tomatoes,

diced watermelon radish, parsley, feta, cilantro.

Jammy hard-boiled egg halved on top.

A dressing of homemade mayo lightened with

yogurt and lemon juice.

Is it not a poem, this bowl?

Bon appetit!

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