Getting ready, making plans, gathering resources, anticipating what lies ahead – these require all kinds of different preparations. Much depends on whether we are designing something new, going on a trip, looking forward to a celebration or a holiday, cooking a meal, painting or repainting something, repairing what’s broken, or something as simple as going
We see the reports, the data having to do with temperature, wind, barometric pressure, whether or not there is any precipitation in the form of rain, snow or sleet, maybe even other details like sunrise and sunset. We look ahead at predictions in order to be prepared or to know what to wear. One thing
When we hear the word “season” what comes readily to mind? It could be one of the four seasons of Summer, Spring, Winter or Fall. Did you notice they were not listed in order of their appearance? One season ends, another begins and the most obvious characteristic, besides each one following another in a predictable
Think of many of the ways people speak about time. “I didn’t have time to do it.” What they mean is they did not choose to take the time to do it, whatever “it” was, but who is going to say that they chose something else? How about this? “It’s time to eat.” It
Seven days on a calendar makes a week, one day following another in one of the most predictable and reliable sequences we experience. Twenty-four hours, the same for everyone with the difference being in how we choose to spend that time. Beyond some of the necessary functions of eating and sleeping, and for many, working,
As a contrast to the two previous days of details, we are now going to the 30,000 foot view and have a look at the bigger picture. It may seem like a flip-flop from one extreme to the other. In a test, the question would start with, “Compare and contrast…..” asking us to consider similarities
