What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?

Time.

I would like to squeeze a little more out of every day.  The candle is burned at either end, and most days have a little more content than capacity.

Life swirls and dips like murmurating starlings at dawn and dusk. But my murmurations are not confined to either end of the day. Any unfilled gap in a day can be easily filled with some mental, domestic or creative murmuration.

Murmurating is not always the most economic use of time. For the economy of time there are lists and routines. Dull but essential.

I’ve had a busy extended week and in an attempt to squeeze more out of a day I started on some routine tasks at 11:30 pm. I worked through my lists and hopped off to bed. Smug that I had achieved.

A quick note to a friend to plan a meeting ‘ tomorrow’ was my last point on the to-do list. But I had failed to realise that when I wrote it tomorrow had already become today and thus my meeting ended up as a coffee and a hot chocolate for 1!

I spent an hour happily waiting, murmurating creatively.

All sorts of odd jobs were done on my phone. But the planned meeting did not take place and has been bounced into an as yet unspecified gap in both our schedules.

Would the luxury of more time helped? Maybe not.

I fear I will always fill all of my moments rather too full for comfort. Until I don’t.

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