Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

A list of some fun things.

This past weekend, someone asked,

When was the last time you had fun?

I thought about this for a while (there is a message in there about thinking about feelings, but let’s not digress to that today). I wrote a list:

taking a walk for 1,100 miles down U.S. Route 11 was fun

every time I see my grandson is fun

every time I play my guitar is fun

every time I have a pen or pencil in hand and set it to a blank sheet of paper is fun

every time one of my adult sons asks me a question is fun

every time a person who is younger than me actually talks to me is fun

and then there is

Every day I come home from work, I enter the house and say, “I’m home.” My wife walks in the room and says, “I’m glad.” Now that is fun.