A Note from Bill Tindal

Be in the Moment
Written by Bill Tindal

Since my retirement from Y-12 and taking on my role with Omega, things in my life are different. A recent experience makes that point. Karen and I were walking through a Hobby Lobby store before Thanksgiving. She was looking for items to celebrate a coworker’s birthday. While I had been in the store many times before, this time was different. While she was looking at party plates, streamers, candles, and inflatable signs, I found myself smiling and laughing. The more we walked through the store, the more I couldn’t stop laughing to myself. For the first time, I noticed painting kits, classics like the magic 8 ball, nautical nick-nacks, unicorns, coat racks made from fake coral, pillows of all shapes sizes and colors, and signs you might put on a kid’s door like “Beware – Dinosaur Inside!”. I had been through that store dozens of times before and never noticed all these hilarious items. Why was that day different? I was “In the Moment”. Too many times in the past, I was preoccupied with work. Thinking through the stress of the day, what I had to do tomorrow (or at home tonight). Stresses don’t go away for any of us, but they do change over time. My encouragement to you is to find a moment. Be in the moment. Put aside the things that are bothering you at that moment. And take a minute to see what you’ve been missing. I assure you that all those work and home stresses will still be there when you’re done. But for just a few moments, find your peace… and maybe a mermaid crossing sign.