Crossing Desert Sands

When I got this fortune last week, I was excited. Did it mean I would soon be going to Africa? A safari perhaps?

Or maybe to Mexico? A getaway to Cabo? I've been logging too many hours on the keyboard recently. Article assignment after article assignment. A beach vacation would be nice.

But no and no. It's Arizona instead.

How could I have forgotten all about my trip to Arizona for the Thanksgiving holiday? I was so busy spinning foreign desert locations that I totally blanked on my upcoming calendar and scheduled flight to the Sonora.

In fact, it wasn't until I started to think about packing last night that I made the connection at all to my fortune cookie.

But life is like that. We forget to see what's right in front of us because we're too busy dreaming up future adventures. What a timely reminder as I head into these days of gratitude.