Let's Go Carpe This Diem

I was chopping red cabbage and cucumbers fresh from the garden when he lingered in the kitchen that evening.

Supper was a bit late that night (if there is such a thing as a *late* supper at our house with our ever-fluid routine) because I was perched on top of the kitchen table taking pictures of my kids painting with water colors for the first time in the glow of the evening.

"You have time for a shower before supper if you like," I told him, the words sounding funny to me. A shower marks the end of the husband's day, and rarely does his day end before supper.

"I know," he replied. "Just pondering the fact that today was my last day with my customers, my last day on the route."

"I've been thinking the same thing all day," came my words. I had already been down my valley of doubts and was ready to move on. "Any thoughts, regrets, laments?"

"Nope," he stated even before the last syllable of my question left my lips. "Just movin' forward."

And that's what we'll do. We'll move forward. We'll learn from all our past journeys. We'll commit to learn from this journey. We'll make goals. We'll set our standards high and our expectations low.

And if you'll excuse us, we've got some diem to carpe.


{I hope all you Latin enthusiasts will forgive my butchering of the aforementioned and cliched Latin phrase.}