Five Minute Friday – Opportunity

It’s Five Minute Friday again!  Yeah, we’re back on, regardless of technical difficulties!  It’s our chance to write for five minutes flat – Unscripted.  Unedited.  Real.  Just five minutes of focused writing.

We call it our “Flashmob of Writers” and it happens here:  www.lisajobaker.com

Opportunity

I don’t normally have to leave the house to clear my mind, but today it was necessary.  Desperately necessary.

It was dark as I drove down my country road thinking I might stop and park at the library to write.

All day I’ve {NEEDED} an opportunity to have some peace and quiet.  Time to be alone, with no one underfoot or the laundry begging to be finished – or even a computer screen staring me in the face.

Wow, I was hardly able to keep my eyes on the road – I was so distracted by the sky.  It was amazingly clear and the stars were as bright as diamonds overhead.

Opportunity is sometimes completely unexpected.  I ran to the grocery store, then parked at the library and got out and leaned against the car to look at the sky.  I would have pulled out the pen and notebook right there and then, but it was my opportunity to just BE there, looking up… loving what I could see with the naked eye.

Orion’s belt was in the Eastern sky – clear and precise regardless of the streetlights.  I’m in AWE.  And I’m a little saddened that this nature-lover hasn’t been bundled up and spending a little more time outside looking at the stars.  It was like it was created just for me, and I had been ignoring it.

Sometimes opportunity is unexpected, but this sky full of beautiful, untouched stars is available almost every night.  An opportunity I shouldn’t be passing up.