As soon as we got there I regretted it. The last time I was in Lexington during daylight hours was 24 hours before I had my son. I was two weeks overdue and walked all over town trying to get him to fall out. He didn't. So as Luke and I made our way towards the Battle Green (for the 900th time), I started thinking about how I was going to have a new experience. Maybe I'd join the Minute Men of Lexington? Maybe I could...uh.... um... Come on Mary....think!
As I got more entranced in my day dreams of what could be, Luke said, "Hey, lets check this out."
I looked up and saw an old sign pointing towards the belfry. I must have walked past this sign a hundred times but never once asked the questions: What is that? Where does this path lead? Never did I utter the phrase: "Lets check it out," because I never saw the sign. I walked past it a hundred times and *never* saw the sign. How is that even possible?
We almost missed seeing an important part of American history because I walk around life missing all the signs. I'm not living in the here and now....I'm living in the "what's next?"
I'm walking around life with a glazed looked. I see people and things, but its like my mind doesn't register it. I must have missed a lot of important things and interesting people on my pursuit to see the main attraction. Lexington's main attraction: The Battle Green. Have you ever been there? Look at my kid (featured right). That's about as interesting as that place gets. Look at him! He's like: I'm over it.
If I'm going to do this 31 days thing right, I'm going to have to keep my eyes peeled and live for the moment. My brother John wanted to see an eagle during his 31 days of Nuly. As he and his family were driving upstate, they spotted a sign: "EAGLE OBSERVATORY." The signs are there, we just need to read them and say, "lets check it out."
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