Taking in my surroundings, I note a wisp of dog hair that was missed by yesterday’s vacuuming, or it’s a new one that formed overnight. The mini-blind on the window in front of me is hanging crooked. The right side is lower than the left, so I walked over and straightened it, then did a half rotation of 180 degrees to walk into the kitchen. The Chemex is complete, so I reached up and grabbed a clean mug from the tray of mugs on the shelf above the stove, even though I knew there was a perfectly good cup for coffee sitting in another room that would work fine after a rinse. Each step of the day is new and deserves to be greeted as such.
Last year, I bought a new kitchen scale, mainly to measure coffee grinds, but it will weigh more than that. It’s digital and looks to be made of white glass, but it’s probably acrylic just in case it’s dropped. The glass jar at the base of the coffee grinder weighs around 155 grams when empty. I flip the switch of the grinder and slowly count to five then turn it off and place the jar of grinds on the scale. I stare at the digital read out to register and smile when it reads 180 grams, because that’s the perfect amount of coffee for my Chemex, but it doesn’t happen every day.
Some mornings I’m in a hurry and turn the grinder off too soon and the grinds weigh 178g, but other mornings I count too slowly, or am distracted and it goes over to 185g. I see this as a gauge for my inner energy for the day from doing every step by hand and how much focus is on the task. Little focus amounts to under, or over the desired amount, but being present and paying attention to every step, it’s nailed. The scale reading tells me a lot about where I am in my day and seeing the 180g makes me smile. Balance is important and my energy is on an even keel when the digital scale lights up and reads the one eighty.
You don’t need a scale for this, my darling. At any given moment you can pivot your body, or thoughts with a half rotation and give your day the one eighty. The scale just makes it more visible, and I gravitate toward shiny.
PS. My phone has been left turned off every morning for one week since sharing in this post here. That’s why I’m noticing more of my surroundings.
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