I seem to have the attention span of a squirrel today

Is it just me??

I don’t always feel so distracted. So distractible.

Ai-yi-yi. Extreme!

I changed my mind about what to do about 14 times today.

I totally meant to write another posting that’s a no-brainer, following up on the elephants posting I just did (let’s hope I get it done soon - if I do you’ll totally see what I mean about it being a no-brainer) & even another post, describing yesterday’s so cool, so-amazing episode of grace…

but instead I read too many Substacks (I sure do like Celia Farber!!), watched a good chunk of a pretty insightful (& very sobering) interview Tucker Carlson did recently with Jeffery Sachs, managed to inadvertently subscribe to 4 or so Substackers I didn’t actually mean to (not quite sure how I pulled that off, & this at a time when I know I can’t possibly do justice to the too-many I already subscribe to - talk about “eyes bigger than my stomach”)

& just all-around felt restless as heck.

I made myself go out for a walk, finally, & do some errands.

That was smart.

I’m not quite so squirrel-y now.

Just gonna say here, for the record, that the weather here where I live (Toronto, Ontario, & right down by the lake, as it happens) has been very unsettled lately. For more than a week now. Just under 2 weeks ago there was some pretty serious weather down in the U.S. Tornadoes across several states on Memorial Day weekend - quite a few deaths.

Up here we seemed to be getting the “tail end” of that weird weather system. Which is logical. Not unexpected, I daresay.

But the weird weather keeps persisting. What’s been happening for me, as a weather-watcher? I see all the forecasts of huge rainfall & big storms - most of which seem to blow over the area I live in - not complaining about that! - but it’s just day after day of forecasts of weather being either hotter or cooler or windier or stormier or more humid than expected - & it keeps changing so many times through the day! Cloudy. Sunny. Big nasty clouds threatening. And going by. And then suddenly it’s sunny again.

Rinse & repeat.

It’s … unsettling!

Now.

Do I feel squirrel-y ‘cos the weather is so unsettled?

Is unsettled weather capable of making us humans feel, well .. unsettled?

I’m inclined to think so.

But then, I know I can be weird.

So.

It’s just a thought.

Take it with a grain of salt, & move on.

“Be careful not to do something permanently stupid because you are temporarily angry, stressed, scared, tired or hungry.” – Karen Salmansohn

Or … squirrel-y.

And yes.

I know, I know, I know

It isn’t just the weather that is unsettled…