Be the goat you are
I was reading about this woman who went to work on a farm so that she could unplug from her harried world and one thing she learned was that goats are divided into followers and leaders, and if there is not a leader in the group then they run around like chickens with their heads cut off. I’ve been doing some reading recently trying to uncover who I am and what I am good at doing. One thing that is a hands down given, I’m the leader. I saw E recently because of my anxiety of late and was telling her about a dream I had whereby Blekica kept jumping in the river and I kept having to bend all the way over and get her out. This scene kept playing itself out until suddenly Tin was falling out of the bed, head first, and I had to bend the other way and grab him before he hit bottom only to learn he had a helmet on, but the strap wasn’t tight enough and then I found myself running across Canal Street buck naked except for a skimpy white towel around me. Lord today – there are some stresses in my life right now.
But Michele said we should all get the bumper stickers that say TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED and I’m trying to think that way because that is a good mantra to have. The question is when you’re playing the game of Simon Says and you’re Simon and you don’t know what the next command is, you get, well, a little anxious.
Simon says: Be the goat, Rachel.