Appreciation

Having set out this morning to write something about how we should appreciate the small things in life, it soon became apparent that the absence of some of these same small things was making it very difficult to write about an appreciation of the same.

A sharpness of mind, for instance. How can I effectively speak about a quality such as this when the effort at description requires the use of the thing which is lacking--to whit, a sharpness of mind?

I sit instead with sore neck and shoulders, hands folded in perplexity above the very face of enigma, the jungle of letters on the laptop keyboard, which is a jungle wherein some days no sun shines save the thinnest sliver.

Appreciate what you have. Then appreciate what you have left of what you had. Apply your whole self as far as possible to the whole of each and every day.