You can have something vaguely roaming about in your mind for days or weeks before you decide to act on the idea and make it real. What is it that makes ‘some one of these days’ become ‘now?’
Perhaps you’ve been staring mindlessly out the window at your scrappy, weed-infested garden. Suddenly, a shaft of sunlight strikes a brave spring tulip, and you think: “I should get out there and give that tulip some love.” And that very afternoon, you find gloves and a trowel, and those weeds are history.
Or you’ve been staring balefully every night at the dwindling pantry stock of tinned soups. You’re equally sick of the aftertaste of tin and rubbery chicken. Before you close the cupboard door in disgust, you notice some cannelini beans, some black olives, and oil-packed tuna. And before you know it, you’re happily rootling in the fridge for parsley to make a fresh-tasting Provencal dish.
It’s all creativity, blooming in the spring sun
I’ve felt a spring jolt of creativity, but the ‘now’ for me was a call to a very different action.
I think what did it was hearing the reporting around the President’s whimsical notion that perhaps he’d wind down the coronavirus task force sooner than later. “Yes, some people won’t do well. And other people may not do well at all. But we have to reopen the economy, no matter what.”
I translated this as: “You may get sick, or your family member will. And you, or they, might die. But that’s hard cheese, because in my America, money comes before people. Especially poorer, sicker people.”
I’d been trying hard to think positive thoughts these last weeks. In fact, a very tiny silver lining has been in my mind, namely: My heart is not wrung out worrying about keeping Timothy safe in the midst of a pandemic.
On the other hand, I’ve been frustrated on his behalf that he can’t personally add to his collection of militant bumper stickers. So after hearing the most idiotic statement I’ve ever heard (well, I’ve heard so far this week — the idiotic statement list is very very long), something in me snapped. It was suddenly Now.
So I decided to log into Timothy’s Zazzle account and channel my inner Tim. And here is the result:
There’s also a square version for iconoclasts.
All profits ‘we’ make will go to one or two Democratic candidates (please suggest someone: I haven’t decided yet!). And forward the link from Tim’s Zazzle page wherever you think it will do the most good. If you have a Twitter or other social media account, go ahead and promote it.
In my heart, I hear Tim cheering.