He was just waiting for his ride, leaning on a shopping cart in the grocery store parking lot, and he said, apropos of absolutely nothing: “Every day you’re not annoyed is a day you won.”
I have thought about this more than most things anyone with an actual platform has ever told me. Some wisdom just gets handed to you by strangers in parking lots. You don’t get to pick the venue.
James
Word Spillage is where I write about whatever's stuck in my head that week — sometimes useful, sometimes just noise. When I'm not spilling words here, I'm the author of An Enchanted Heart, an epic fantasy novel (on Amazon) about a girl who wanders into the woods during a thunderstorm and comes out the other side in the magical realm of Lysoria, chasing down her mother and herself in roughly equal measure.
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