I try hard to find events I need to attend. Milestones I want to see. Thanksgiving, the birth of my best friend’s baby, a trip to Minneapolis. I search for anything that is too important to miss. My three-year sober anniversary, teaching winter term, moving in with Andrew. There is always beauty to anticipate. I just have to find it. And like Sage Francis said, “If you snoop around long enough for something in particular you’re guaranteed to find it.”
So I keep looking. And I keep hushing down the part of me who says I’ll never find them.
Photo courtesy of Tim Mossholder.
Ruby Pipes 
I’ve found that if I snoop around long enough, I may not find what I’m looking for, but I often find something else that I value. So keep snooping.
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That’s a good thing to keep in mind. Thank you.
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The snooping image reminds me of the story of a critter that makes its living by truning over stones looking for bug to eat. Even if only one rock in ten has a bug under it, the snooping is still a success. Keep flipping over your stones and you will find the morsels of joy and inspiration.
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Thank you. That’s a really perfect image.
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Reblogged this on cabbagesandkings524 and commented:
The importance of snooping.
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I don’t know how you’ve been doing it, but your daily blogging content has been just as interesting.
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Thank you so much!
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