As the year begins, we
Consider all
That we want to accomplish:
Insurmountable
Obstacles
Never-ending
Projects
Loom large
As we stand back
Navigating a path
Negotiating the tasks ahead, asking:
Is it all that insurmountable, really?
Not when there is a structured plan to
Get the wheels turning…….
Common Threads 
It’s true-a structured plan, even as simple as a list, results in accomplishments. Love your poem and wonder, is action-planning your OLW? That would be a good one for me! 😉
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What a great poem!! Thanks for sharing it and the nudge to take time to make the plan, instead of hyper-focusing on the insurmountable tasks at hand!
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I relate to this as I am SUCH a planner! When I was teaching full-time, I was the team member who would plan out a unit so we all knew when we needed to be done. (I always left room for the unexpected, like kids needing more time, or snow days!) Even yesterday, as we were figuring out where to go to get our engine fixed, I was planning the best ways to get back home from a place we weren’t at yet. I appreciate the reminder that planning can be very helpful!
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Kim,
I’m constantly awed by the power of poetry to capture complex ideas, to make a safe space for us to share our anxieties and worries as you have here. I listened to a podcast on scarcity today, so don’t let the time sucks of to-do lists overcome the quiet moments reserved for you. It’s okay not to do all the things.
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Kim, I believe you brought joy to all of us who read your poem. It is so positive that you have tabled insurmountable with action planning and structure.
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Kim, how perfectly you matched content to form here! I am sure we have discussed this along the way: I love acrostics. I think they’re greatly underused. Secondly… how true it is, how easy it is, to be overwhelmed by all the to-dos (the “need to-dos” as well as the “want to-dos). I am learning how to let go a little more. Actually, a lot more. I wonder if it’s my age. A realization that I do, in fact, have limits. I wonder if it’s the constant reshifting of priorities to accommodate my grown children and expanding family – because they need me more vs. less. Every day is a lesson in priorities. Obstacles are surmountable when you look at them and say: “I don’t have time to scale you today, Obstacle. I am going a different way. Will deal with you later.” I am taking – always taking – lessons from my three-year-old Micah, who tells me the tree skirt around the Christmas tree and the towel in her bathroom here at my house are “beautiful.” This is the lens I want to wear (even while driving home from work bone-weary and seeing a tiny mouse skittering across the road in the icy weather. Somehow the mouse is beautiful. Also heart-piercingly pitiful). This year is the year I want to get the house repairs and renovations done…to make this place beautiful…yeah, man, I can relate to your poem! I have made a starting plan. Basically: Start somewhere! I can shift as I go; I just have to start. I guess you can see how deeply your poem speaks to me, friend! Thank you as always for the shot of courage.
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What a powerful poem, Kim. You are so right about things (especially at the outset) feeling so terribly BIG and insurmountable. It’s overwhelming, really, to think of goals as a whole. Yet, as you remind us, sometimes it just takes a plan, and a step, and a gentle rolling (or in some cases, a lurch) forward to get us moving. Thank you for this!
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