Not Today...Not Today

  Life is fragile.  We can appear tough and ready to take on the world when one tiny slip changes the whole pace of things.  Here on the Bayou, life in general is rough and there are days that make me want to crawl back in bed and not face the challenges.  I do, however, because I have to even though, sometimes, I do not want to.  I get up, carry on and meet the challenges and rarely ever let the world know that it almost did me in.  It almost beat me.  Just not today.  

  It is like that with critters about the Bayou, as well.  Life is tough on them, too.   They face daily challenges just to survive...some do....many do not.  Earlier this morning, I was out doing yard work when I noticed a delicate damselfly sunning on a fig leaf.  It was so frail looking that I pondered how the bug ever survived with predators at every turn.  Then, the damselfly took flight and headed toward the Frog Pond.  She was going to lay her eggs near the water's edge so the life cycle could continue.  Well, there was another critter at the pond and things did not end well for our pretty, little damselfly.  She became breakfast for a skink.   The lizard, however, did well for itself and would live for another day.  

  Days are like that.   We are like that.  Some come, some go and others just wander through trying to survive.  Right now, I am wandering.  I am trying to make it through each day while handling everything that should really not be my problems.  Too many things have been dumped in my lap and I am going in circles trying to deal with them.  This, too, shall pass...at least, I hope.