The earth crunched under foot, small round pebbles bouncing away with the hurriedness of each step. He had seen no trace of the bear, nor the ones hunting it, and the fear of being too late ate away at him greedily.
I often refer to small problems like a pebble in your shoe. It is small enough that you usually don’t want the bother and delay of undoing your laces, shaking it out, and having to tie them up again. It’s only a small thing, you can keep going. But if you go too long with pebbles in your shoes, eventually you will get blisters, and then limp. Soon, it might be hard to walk at all. So, every so often, I try to get rid of my “pebbles”, little things out of place or small things that just bother me. Maybe it is the hair tie on my bedside table, maybe the fact that I don’t know which erasers are still good or last night’s earrings that I didn’t put away yet. Because also I have found that starting with small tasks makes it easier to tackle bigger tasks since you have already got the ball rolling. It is one of the reasons I try to do my Duolingo first thing in the morning because it is a small success that makes me feel smart and capable. You start with moving pebbles and the mountains seem easier.
The jagged pebble, imperceptible when on the other side of the sole, fused under the big toe because he chose to keep walking. It’ll reside there as a sharp painful prick reminding him of his mistake until his last, relieving, step.
father a a pebble is a stone that I put into my shoe, it doesn’t bother me, but reminds me that I need to write the darn article about Seun and I need to do it today. I’m not sure when Tom Gitaa will want it to blast Mshale again. I’m thinking asap. The article about Seun is practically written. The interview was terrific and now all transcribed. My preview will pretty much be a cut-n-paste!
The earth crunched under foot, small round pebbles bouncing away with the hurriedness of each step. He had seen no trace of the bear, nor the ones hunting it, and the fear of being too late ate away at him greedily.
I often refer to small problems like a pebble in your shoe. It is small enough that you usually don’t want the bother and delay of undoing your laces, shaking it out, and having to tie them up again. It’s only a small thing, you can keep going. But if you go too long with pebbles in your shoes, eventually you will get blisters, and then limp. Soon, it might be hard to walk at all. So, every so often, I try to get rid of my “pebbles”, little things out of place or small things that just bother me. Maybe it is the hair tie on my bedside table, maybe the fact that I don’t know which erasers are still good or last night’s earrings that I didn’t put away yet. Because also I have found that starting with small tasks makes it easier to tackle bigger tasks since you have already got the ball rolling. It is one of the reasons I try to do my Duolingo first thing in the morning because it is a small success that makes me feel smart and capable. You start with moving pebbles and the mountains seem easier.
The jagged pebble, imperceptible when on the other side of the sole, fused under the big toe because he chose to keep walking. It’ll reside there as a sharp painful prick reminding him of his mistake until his last, relieving, step.
father a a pebble is a stone that I put into my shoe, it doesn’t bother me, but reminds me that I need to write the darn article about Seun and I need to do it today. I’m not sure when Tom Gitaa will want it to blast Mshale again. I’m thinking asap. The article about Seun is practically written. The interview was terrific and now all transcribed. My preview will pretty much be a cut-n-paste!
I want to skip the pebble
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