By SUSAN DROMEY HEETER, Joyful Musings

I keep a variety of pins in my little house: push pins, safety pins, political pins and simple pins that are statements echoing my current state of mind. One pin I’ve been wearing quite often reads, “I have no idea what I’m doing.”

Today I muse joyfully on full disclosure of life during this pandemic. I, truly, have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to Zoom meetings, online meetings, remote teaching, whether I will wear a mask when I take a walk, whether I will leave my shoes outside when I return.

No idea.

I have no idea what I’m doing when I go to collect my Foster’s Daily Democrat and Boston Globe: should I wear gloves? Wipe down the newspapers before I read? Keep social distancing from the headlines?

I have no idea what I’m doing today. Laundry? A shower? I might play another Words with Friends with Judy who, I must admit, I am slamming with 50-point words. I love when I get those J’s, Z’s, Q’s.  I guess I do have an idea of what I’m doing when it comes to two letter words that offer a lot of bang for my buck.

And in so many ways, it’s pretty liberating to reveal that I have no idea what I’m doing. The freedom in asking for help, being open to ideas, reveling in new possibilities in the glorious unknown.

A day with no agenda can be such a beautiful canvas upon which to create color, love, belly laughs.  The unknown can be so much more interesting than the well thought out, meticulously planned day. I admit, having no idea what I’m doing is beautifully liberating.

I celebrate that you enjoy having no idea what you are doing as well.  

Bask in the unknown, the unexpected, the “what will happen next.”

Muse joyfully in the next five minutes. Celebrate this glorious now. And if you have no idea what you’re doing, I’ve got the right pin for you to wear.

Susan Dromey Heeter is a writer from Dover who recently let her hair go au natural white. Writing has been her passion since her English majoring days at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.  Dromey Heeter has lived in The Netherlands, Alaska and currently basks in all things New England, including the frigid winters. An avid swimmer, Dromey Heeter’s great passion is to bring back body surfing as most children have no idea how to ride waves without ridiculous boogie boards.

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