“Free Fallin’”, a great song by Tom Petty, and also yet another way to describe many mornings, as my mind comes to consciousness and addresses the day ahead…

All the thoughts, rushing forward in a hurry, jockeying to be first, on the list, to be considered, addressed, already late, behind,

And I think it’s that last word “ behind”, as that thought manifest and comes into focus, I feel like I am falling, free falling, into the abyss, into nowhere…

After a short time I shift my thinking to the practical and immediate and the very tasks demanding attention, one by one. It feels flat. Mundane. But that’s life sometimes.

Later as I’m waiting at a stoplight on this autumn morning, I see a leaf fall from its branch on the side of the road, free-falling gently to the ground … free-falling …

And I chuckle.