Walking home and dreaming of a digital drawing board

I was walking home this morning. Tired, worn out, but feeling really good from being outside and I caught sight of a couple of male cardinals during my walk. Bright, vivid red just jumped right out at me. Even though I can't see clearly without my glasses, I could see the color and it was just stunning. It always brings me right back into the moment and thus into ordinary magic, but I digress. I was walking home. I was tired. I was hot. I was ready to just sit down, have some breakfast, have my coffee, have a cold glass of water and cool off.

And I kept thinking about Rooted Mystic, about my business and wishing that I had a giant ass whiteboard so that I could do a big old flowchart that I was trying to think through in my brain, but that got too big for me to process everything and to keep track of all of the arrows and the this goes here and this goes to that and this goes to this other thing and all of that. But I don't. I do have a big whiteboard, but it's already taken up with stuff and I have a small handful of much smaller whiteboards that are also full and taken up with stuff.

And I really wanted something online that I could access and I was thinking, I wish I had a, I don't even know what those things are called, like a drawing board, like a digital drawing board so that I could plug that in, physically draw out what I'm seeing, but then have it show up on my computer or on Canva or something so that I could, you know, edit and play with it from there, but so that I could get out what was in my head because I'm left-handed and it's really hard for me to quote-unquote draw with my mouse right-handed.

So I'm thinking about all of this and I'm frustrated because I don't have any of those things and I'm trying to figure out, okay, how can I make this work? Fast forward about, I don't know, eight hours later into the day, I was on YouTube looking for something else. Oh good lord, I can't even remember now what I was looking for. I'm gonna have to figure that out too. Squirrel!

Anyway, I was looking for something else and this video popped up about Canva whiteboards and how to use them and I was like, what? What is this? So I click on the video and I'm watching this guy do a tour of Canva whiteboards, which I didn't even realize was a thing, and it looks freaking amazing. It looks basically, no not even basically, it looks like exactly what I wanted, only more. It's got even more options and even more tools than what I was thinking. I was just thinking something very, very basic, like just a plain Jane basic flowchart, but this thing has got like sticky notes and you can integrate the images that are on Canva and all of these other things.

So I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. But listen, my point is, this is just one example. This kind of shit happens to me every day. Every day now this is happening to me. Now I'll say it happens more often when I'm out and about than it does when I just stay inside my home, which is not to say that it can't happen when I'm just staying inside my home, only that for me personally, I happen to notice it more often when I'm out and about in various ways, whether that's on the road, whether that's in different places, whether that's just out walking, whatever.

So there you go. There's another example. Ordinary magic. Life is listening. Life, capital L, is paying attention. Now it's just up to us to pay attention on our end and realize when these little magical connections are happening. Pay attention.