I received a mailer from a cleaning company the other day with the slogan, Life’s Too Short to Clean Your Own Home® It sort of spoke to me. At my age, a cancer and heart attack survivor, the brevity of life is a real attention getter. I didn’t feel a great need to extend my life by foregoing housecleaning. I rather enjoy it sometimes, sweeping up dog fur and so forth, but with this heart healthy high fiber diet I’m on, sometimes I feel like I could use someone to wipe my bum for me, but I suppose we all end up there if we stick around long enough, and there’s no sense rushing things. After all, life’s too short.
But I did get to wondering if the women cleaning my home would suffer twice the life shortening effects of housecleaning by cleaning their own homes and mine too. I guess I could refinish the basement, put a little apartment down there, so they’d only be cleaning one home. This being a southern city, there’s already a toilet down there for the help. Sort of like Downton Abbey. It could be a real opportunity for someone. I could post flyers on the trees as I hike through some of the more obscure reaches of the James—Life’s Too Short to Be Homeless. Catchy, don’t you think? First, I’d need to get that toilet fixed, but life’s too short for that. Besides, plumbers cost a fortune.
Every breath a prayer of gratitude!
We are at any given time about six heart beats and a few breaths away from the next adventure. Keep that in mind as focus on being here now with some prudent observance of what might be a bit ahead along with the most minimal recounting and recollection of what is behind. Let the rough side drag. Onward and upward nearer my God to thee!-)