That’s how the Driver’s Ed manual says I should approach dangerous situations.
Somehow “Taking Dangers One at a Time (page 53 of the manual) reminded me of this wonderful passage from Anne Lamott’s BIRD BY BIRD.
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'”
And so today …
Painting project for Val & Clark (while listening to David Neagle)
One Client Call –– which was wonderful in every way
Bikram
Read through Driver’s Ed Manual (and took insanely copious notes)
Took 2 practice tests at the end (astonished at my perfect score)
And now writing this blog, tapping a bit, and then bed.
Bird by Bird, indeed.
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