Oblique Strategies

My new goal is to write one post a day that I wring from a different card of the Oblique Strategies. It is an exercise I've needed for some time and I only wonder why it took so long to form in my mind. I may only make it to the weekdays, since I spend the weekends trailing after my momma like a baby duck.
Maybe these will all come to nothing, maybe they will all be abominations to literature. But they are one thing: words that I've achingly, blindingly, passionately wrested from mind to fingertips to keyboard.
And that's all I care about.

To wit: The card of the day then what I feel about it.

Not building a wall, but making a brick.
Adding layer to layer. Looking at a spool of thread and seeing a dress. It's taking for granted that tomorrow will be here and I have time to grow. Nothing hinders a seedling to sprout because it knows inch by inch it will become a watermelon. It doesn't take time to doubt that spending this energy will be wasted. It has one thing to do: grow. So we have one thing. Growth is remembering what we did yesterday to add to what we do tomorrow. Growth is sticking to a goal because you know in a month you'll really have something to show for it. Growth is not a destination; it is a process.