My good friend Pam uses this word to describe the moment when you think you have your day planned out. Ahh, you are organized. You have all the pieces you need to accomplish. All the bits on your list. You are ready to go and then the school nurse calls and tells you that you have to go pick up a sick child or your elderly aunt needs a ride to the doctor, a friend is in crisis, or the dog is limping and needs a vet visit or simply the car won’t start, again! Slippage! There is no traction. Your wheels start to spin. You can’t literally and figuratively get a grip. There is this sense of spinning or diverging aimlessly from the path you expected. 

Our lives are dominoes so often. Stacked horizontally. This errand leans on this event. This piece of work has to be done before that piece does. Everything is a moving part. So, how do we stay nimble, lithe, flexible? How do we not get immediately frustrated and resentful of the changes? 

Breathe. Trusting that the moving parts are simply just that. They are the constant “to do’s” moving and shifting around us. Believing that there is always time and there is always a solution is crucial. Trust in the internal strength that is you. As we continue to move forward in our day, look for openings and windows of time. Priorities will naturally shift and what seemed essential hours ago, before the slippage, will appear to not be as essential. The glimmers of time will feel blissful and like a gift. 

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