A full life

I have a personal to-do list over 30 items long; a work to-do list that I stopped counting at 40, not including emails flagged for follow-up.

There are five or six chores that always need doing around the house to pick up after our toddlers' latest adventures and experiments.

There are friends to see, talk to, care for, and plan events with, and all of them are long overdue.

And there my own aspirations, the threads I want to pull to see where they lead. Creative itches I can never seem to reach for all the life that's in the way.

I'm taking a moment today to acknowledge all this for two reasons.

It's a lot—it's a lot.

But also, this is what a full life looks and sounds like. It's not very neat. It's not always comfortable. But it is good.

There's a quote from Only Murders in the Building by Tina Fey's character Cinda Canning that has stuck with me since I heard it.

"Embrace the mess. That's where the good stuff lives."