I’ve been out-of-my-mind exhausted the past several days, and yet I wake up at four every morning, my mind churning, my body tossing.

All it means is that I’m stressing when I shouldn’t be…and oh yeah, I should probably “up” my workouts.  That always makes me sleep.

I discovered a wonderful quote today that reminded me, once again, to grab hold of life…even when I’m tired. There will never be a better time.

“Every one of us is called upon, probably many times, to start a new life.  A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job…And onward full tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore.  To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another–that is surely the basic instinct….Crying out: High tide!  Time to move out into the glorious debris.  Time to take this life for what it is.”

–Barbara Kingsolver, from High Tide in Tucson