Meandering....in a Hurry

I was in a hurry today to get home after dropping the girls. I had to clean for the cleaning ladies (one of the oxymorons of my life). Well I decided to avoid the highway, I saw the back-up in the other direction due to pothole repair. Didn't want to sit in traffic! But, I took a wrong turn and ended up coming home a totally different way than I meant to or than I have driven in quite a while. It was somewhat circuitous. You never know what you'll see when you make a wrong turn. I saw Clarence's BBQ (which really was a shack), a lot covered in about 7 feet of snow (must have been the major snow removal dump for the town), a church where I sang a few times with the chorus I sang with in the mid-90s, very nice neighborhoods, very sad neighborhoods, and oddly industrial areas. I was less than a mile from my house, and knew where I was, but hadn't been there a while. It honestly looked like another planet from where I live and the places I drive through every day. Being on a different road made me open my eyes to see things I normally wouldn't notice. As we move into a new year, that might make a good metaphor for the upcoming year. Happy New Year (again!).