What Are You Waiting For?

Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones Deck prompts -” What are you waiting for?” Go, ten minutes.

What are you waiting for? I received a grant to write a book, and I completed three interviews out of the ten that I said I was going to include in my book project. What am I waiting for? The right time? Having more time? Being less busy? Then I think, well, I have until June of 2026.

Is that procrastination then? I know how to do that for sure. I will never be less busy until I am dead or too sick to work. Even with pneumonia, I kept busy. Then I thought it was because I had been so busy that it had taken as long as it did to recover. Then people will say, no, it does take a while.

When is the right time? Now is the right time. I can work a little each day on this project. I keep this project in my morning prayers. So, with these ten minutes of writing today, I can make plans to start today. Pull it up on the computer and do a little each day until that is all I am doing for a while.

That is as simple as I can get. This prompt is exactly what I needed. Now let’s see if it can happen this way. I am looking forward to getting all the stories together in one place. This idea should make for a good book.

A book that I will want to read. And it is not only about me, as some others are, and most of my writing is. That is important, and I like that part of this project.

Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones Deck prompts — After we write this, maybe we should stop waiting and start acting. I’m not sure how, but certainly before the ocean overruns Florida and the mountains are disgusted with us and march to Iowa and the aspens, pines, palms, cottonwoods, and ponderosas start screaming all at once, “Do something already before we all go down.”

Maybe we are waiting for love? Go down to the Food Depot and help serve soup.

Many levels to this topic. Let yourself cover all kinds of territory. Go where your heart says to go.

I like the saying The Journey Is On as that feels like where I am at. It is a journey. And what have been the holdups to this journey? Training is heavy at the end of some fiscal years. June is the end of the projects I work on, and I didn’t plan for training as much as I have in the past few months.

Just one more required day for this month, and that is next week. Then school is out early in June, and we always get some Grandchildren. We love to have them when the school year is over. We have figured out a schedule of sorts.

And now the Grands from the urban area will begin arriving this weekend. One will stay for a week if we can hold his interest for that long. He is in his teen years, and last we heard, he has a girlfriend.

Then this Cancer Fundraiser that is usually at the beginning of May switched to June for this year, and not for one day or one afternoon, but for the month of June.

There are reasons that my book project didn’t have room in my life. That will change today as I will do a little something each day. It doesn’t have to be much. Just pulling it up on the computer can be a first step, and adding or changing one thing is something I can do.

The journey is on, beginning today!

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First published by Mercury Press on medium.com