Remember:
to brush your teeth and floss and use the water pick and
fix the kids’ breakfast, peanut butter and jelly in their lunch
box, cancel your dental exam because there’s just no time,
get to work by eight, finish that report by ten, the one that
was due yesterday, call the cleaning lady before Wednesday
so she can come before bridge club on Saturday and
remember:
to pay the bills at the end of the month, the taxes at the end of
the year.  Oh, yes, and pay the cleaning lady for the last two
times you forgot, order labels for clothes so the kids can go
to Camp What’s-Its-Name high in the Poconos and don’t
forget those other things either, the ones on your “to-do” list,
wherever you put it, et memento mori (and remember that
you have to die) because you’re human, too, but remember
the other things first because they’ll be more useful today
and from day
to
day.


© by David Blumenfeld.
Used here with the author’s permission.