Important and Unread... all other

Through a still fuzzy morning brain, I ponder the way we make choices: to read or not to read, to listen or not to listen, to pray or not to pray.  So many are made for us.  Morning fuzzy brain is just fine with that.  Just Fine.  Of course choices made for us are more often than not still our choices.  Because Someone or Some Thing Else has chosen to file them into All Other does not mean they should remain there.

The email separates incoming mail

Into Important and Unread

And

All Other.

The italics are not there

But I can see them clearly.

Someone else decided the categories.

It seems I can change them

At will.

This morning it seems fine

To leave well enough

Alone,

Particularly fine when Important and Unread

Offers only a small assortment

And I am tired,

Will soon be driven

To Ohio

To offer words

Important and Unread

I hope and pray

To 28 assorted women.

28 women who can change the categories

At will

Just like me.

28 women who can choose to listen

To walk the grounds

To eat and sleep

Hope for the best

Hope and pray for the worst

And everything in between.

Everything

Important and Unread

All Other.