fast as molasses

for the first time in my life, i spilled molasses. and it ran all over the place. 

yup. you heard me. or rather, read that right. the molasses went everywhere. 

i opened the van door to get the rest of my belongings from moving out of my apartment when i hear the THUNKRASH of a glass jar breaking. it was my molasses — a recent favorite of mine when baking bran muffins — and the driveway meeting in a crash landing. it was SOOOOO hot out that the molasses immediately ran everywhere. i stood there staring at it in wonderment. wow, i thought, that sure is going fast. 

crazy how in this heat, molasses runs fast, and people run slow. i've been feeling as if i have been moving through molasses the last few days. but now that i've actually seen how molasses can move, maybe i've been moving like molasses running through people? 

funny how this heat has just turned everything topsy-turvy. the newsroom is super hot. we're all walking around in our tanks and shorts and sandals when just a couple weeks ago, you couldn't walk home w/o a jacket. 

yup. i measure my life through the daily. and as i sit here now, i think to myself how fast the daily has passed by me. it's like molasses, thick or thin, it keeps going, and sometimes it will surprise you how fast it can actually go.

in the next few days i'll post a shout out to my time here as design chief, putting that job to rest and welcoming next year as the managing editor.