I have to pack today for an 8-day business trip and finish up some wash and make sure things are in order at home before I head out early tomorrow morning.
Before I even opened my eyes, I was feeling the stress and anxiety of these preparations. I sat down a little later to finish my coffee and take a breath and turned on the TV. I surfed through the channels until I settled on CNN where President Obama was about to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider. Further coverage at Arlington National Cemetery was shown and as I thought about all the families who had lost someone in our military, so that we could be “free to move about the country” and to pare it down, so that we could be “free”. It put the packing and the wash and everything else into perspective.
Packing, schmaking. Wash, smash. It’s all small stuff and Arlington and our brave men and women in the Armed Forces. That’s the big stuff.
