You suffer from self-doubt. Later in the day, when you start to tire, you wonder if you’ll be able to get done what needs to be done the following day. What carries you through is that you have early morning energy. Then, once you get going, and things start to go well, you maintain momentum.

This was such a day. You lost sleep attempting to figure it out. But then, once you got going, all went just fine.

You had several things to do, all of which seem to have to be done in short order. It looked last night like this was going to be an

MLK event

impossibility. But you did it. First of all, you needed to get children’s books on the table at the Meeting House so that the cleaning crew would be able to clean and stamp them. You have never, ever had them go digging for books.

You first went to U-Haul and got the books – Pete and Bill had previously helped you organize them. You were in and out of there in a flash. You then went to the Meeting House where you unloaded them and then loaded the black history month books into your vehicle, first putting them into smaller Totes. The books complemented the Martin Luther King Junior event activities.

Then off you went, to Mat-Su College where you met up with Bea, BLBP Board member and event coordinator. The two of you unloaded the books with your dollies and then organized them nicely on the table. Then, for the next five hours, you passed out books and bookmarks and hobnobbed with friends old and new.

You also got Narcan training and got a kit so now if someone around you has an opioid drug overdose, you can give them Narcan and perhaps save their life. Way cool.

You got things packed up and out of the college parking lot in the nick of time – it was by then getting dark. You did just fine driving, but any darker and you would have been in deep do do.

You got to the Meeting House and resumed work. You brought in the bins with the Black History month books and put them in the open area. Pete had brought in and put the VCRS Saturday haul on the table, so you started categorizing these books. And you finished boxing up the books that tomorrow, will be going to five or so villages.

You stopped at 6:15 and heated up some pasta that you brought with you. Also some kale. You were almost done snarfing it down when Pete appeared. Because it was dark, he went with you to the Moose Lodge where you listened to a Palmer Historical Society Talk on the Jonesville Mine. Actually, you couldn’t hear the speaker very well, so you chose to doze.

After, you went to the back table where you’d put the books that you brought with you. Most were taken. Unreal.

Tomorrow is going to be an equally unreal day, and of course, right now you are wondering how you are going to get through it. You have a lot of books that you and you alone must deal with.

This is the nature of abundance.

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