sweat the little things

i forced myself awake from a dream last night, and then most regrettably, couldn't fall back asleep. i tried counting sheep, but each seemed to be carrying with it an issue i needed to face during the waking hours. and as the numbers got bigger, so did the burdens on the sheep...

when i finally did awake from the unrestful rest, my head was a tangle of things that needed to be dealt with. but where to start? what to have for breakfast lead to needing enough time to do photo-editing to having enough funds to pay the bills to the ominous loom of my birthday to where am i headed in life... i was trying to focus on a larger picture of the day, but it was coming up blurry.

so i sat down with a bowl of cereal,  a text message to have coffee at 3, and a very small resolve: until then, i will edit 20 photographs.

on tackling the challenges ahead, perhaps we have got it all wrong. in searching for the bigger picture, we tend to overlook the smaller images. in trying to solve the larger problem, we are told to not sweat the little things. but that's exactly it - one should not untie a knot just by going at it with a pair of scissors - by undoing the little tangles, we understand how we got to the giant mess in the first place; by sweating the little things, we learn and earn patience for the larger problem; by inspecting the smaller images, we could comprehend more in depth the larger picture...

and so, something as quietly insignificant as putting dog biscuits inside a pair of glasses speaks volumes on so many different subjects...