Dear Humans,

I walked past a baseball practice yesterday in the park and the fielders were mostly just standing around. I drove through a construction site this past weekend and the workers were mostly just standing around.

It’s not because these people were lazy. It’s just the nature of life. There’s a lot of standing around and waiting. You wait in lines at amusement parks. You wait for the rest of your family to get ready to leave the house. You wait for visitors to arrive. You wait for pandemics to end.

But the thing about life is that it happens in those waiting moments. So we have to figure out how to fill ourselves up while we’re waiting. Not so we’re productive; but so we’re present.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck