Tend To The Small Things

This is a 'title trade': where folks interested in writing collaboratively in a style I'd describe as 'alone together' trade a title for the other to write about. I've done several over the last two years! This is with Brendan, who wrote about 'tend to the small things,' and here (two months overdue) I'll do the same. I appreciate your (unintended) endless patience, Brendan. The Cycle Of Procrastination I hyperfixate on and notice the smallest possible details, but do I tend to them? No. Or, if I do, it's often only because I've noticed them for months and months and months and then…I lose the battle. What am I fighting, exactly? What am I hoping to achieve with these endless rounds of procrastianation? Escape from uncomfortable feelings, no matter how inconsequential, seems the only honest answer. Yet, as Diane Shiffer writes about in her wonderful book, The Smallest of Joys, the small things are the important things. The minutes and hours are what make up a life, not the lump sums…