who did it?

strangest thing - I have had unbelievably long TO DO lists for several months now. And in the past week or so, I've noticed that things on the list keep getting done without me actually trying to do them.

For example, this morning I had a million things to do and a major deadline to meet. Yet I simply could not make myself stay at my desk one second longer -- I just HAD to get out for a walk in the sunshine. I goofed off with a girlfriend all morning, went to my son's graduation party at the bowling alley this afternoon, and then went shopping with my daughter.

Now here it is 11:30 pm, and I realize that today I have done 6 loads of laundry, completed the two reports that aren't due until tomorrow, scraped the fresh asphalt off of my tire treads with a nutmeat picker, seen the three baby great horned owlets that are living in the park nearby, and unpacked a whole bunch of stuff. How did that happen? I dunno.

But it reminds me of a Zen saying: The wise man does nothing, yet everything gets done. Wait, is that Zen or Taoist? Whatever. I can't take any credit for being wise, but it's a pretty cool feeling to watch things unfold on their own like this. I could get used to that, for sure.