I've pondered these questions for years, and I have no ready answer, except that we do choose how to fill our time.

The habits that clung the longest were the ones that had served me so well up to that point.

My lifelong strategy for flower arranging was to plunk them in a vase and hope they nestled gracefully along the edge, filling the space with beauty and color.

It can get pretty big and unwieldy, like a big gunny sack of squash, clumbering around, using up lots of our energy, encumbering even the smallest aspiration.