"Only a Thing"

Joe was a great teacher and sometimes his students would come up to see him at the canoe livery even after they had graduated. One such time, Joe and I, along with two of them, went out in search of a lost canoe. Lost was a relative term in the business. Sooner or later it would be "discovered", but the search also functioned as a mechanism for "Plausible Deniability" and "Purpose" in one brush stroke. Handy tool on many occasions.

On this particular search, both of the students responded like a Greek chorus with one refrain, no matter what the question happened to be, "It's only a thing!" Sometimes, from my vantage point, questions and discussions can be like quadratic equations. It takes some time to figure them out, but by the end of that fun day, I realized one answer to cosmic inquiries is truly, "It's only a thing!"

All of this brings us to another thing. Procrastination has its own downside in spite of the fun that it generates. Many times before we can get one thing done, we have to get another thing out of the way, and still the thing at hand has to be done before we can move on to the next thing.