Don't Miss the View

Lisa Kaslon Author

07/23/2025 Added

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Enjoy this scenic view of Nebraska's countryside.

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[00:00:00.000]Hey Extension, it's Carrie Gottschalk.
[00:00:04.980]I'm an EZC in Zone 7 and I
[00:00:07.780]wanted to kind of start this
[00:00:11.000]roadside reflection by sharing,
[00:00:12.970]I don't know, maybe a tiny bit
[00:00:14.650]of a story.
[00:00:15.520]And some of you actually have
[00:00:17.920]maybe heard me share this
[00:00:19.980]before, but a few years ago,
[00:00:22.440]one of my kids had recognized
[00:00:24.830]and brought to my attention.
[00:00:27.520]She said, you know, I kind of
[00:00:30.270]feel like our family has
[00:00:32.480]inadvertently or unintentionally
[00:00:35.780]built this practice of
[00:00:37.860]measuring the quality of our
[00:00:40.500]days based on how productive we
[00:00:43.360]were.
[00:00:45.520]or how productive we are. And
[00:00:47.100]that, you know, that caught my
[00:00:48.760]attention, right? I'm like,
[00:00:50.580]huh. And as I kind of paused
[00:00:53.230]and reflected on it over time
[00:00:55.880]for sure, but I really started
[00:00:58.760]to
[00:00:59.100]think about like, why, why are
[00:01:01.550]we, why are we measuring the
[00:01:03.740]quality of our day based on how
[00:01:06.100]much we got done? And then
[00:01:08.060]through this reflection and
[00:01:10.120]time, it had also kind of
[00:01:11.910]caught my attention
[00:01:13.480]my husband with total positive
[00:01:16.460]intent had found this habit of
[00:01:19.320]asking me either maybe when we
[00:01:22.190]were
[00:01:22.720]debriefing after the end of a
[00:01:24.070]day or maybe I had come back
[00:01:25.310]from running errands in Lincoln
[00:01:26.840]or I
[00:01:27.120]don't know, whatever. He would
[00:01:28.360]often say, did you get
[00:01:29.180]everything done you wanted? And
[00:01:31.160]my answer
[00:01:33.340]inevitably was virtually always,
[00:01:35.280]well, no, there's no such thing
[00:01:37.090]as getting everything done that
[00:01:38.840]I
[00:01:38.960]wanted. So as I was reflecting
[00:01:41.680]on that, his really, like his
[00:01:44.290]positive intent to connect with
[00:01:47.100]me and
[00:01:47.420]kind of debrief or ask about my
[00:01:49.290]day, the feelings that came up
[00:01:51.220]for me were twofold. The first
[00:01:53.210]one
[00:01:53.560]was sometimes disappointment
[00:01:55.870]that I had somehow failed and
[00:01:57.980]not gotten everything done that
[00:02:00.360]I
[00:02:00.560]wanted to do. And the other was
[00:02:02.910]irritation, irritation that,
[00:02:05.360]that he brought this feeling
[00:02:07.580]up in me because his question,
[00:02:08.940]you know, reminded me that, no,
[00:02:10.450]I didn't accomplish everything
[00:02:11.870]I
[00:02:12.060]wanted. So anyway, what's my
[00:02:14.680]point? Well, upon reflection of
[00:02:17.590]both of these things, it's
[00:02:19.960]evident
[00:02:20.660]that we're never done. I mean,
[00:02:22.250]there's no such thing as being
[00:02:23.680]done and accomplishing my task
[00:02:25.280]list because we all know the
[00:02:27.150]alternative to that, right? So
[00:02:29.510]I might have gotten laundry
[00:02:31.390]done today,
[00:02:32.380]but there's going to be more
[00:02:33.900]laundry tomorrow. I may have
[00:02:35.640]washed the dishes today. I may
[00:02:37.460]have
[00:02:37.820]mowed the lawn today. I may
[00:02:39.420]have filed my taxes this year,
[00:02:41.170]but you know, you get the point.
[00:02:43.240]It,
[00:02:43.680]it doesn't end. It's, it's
[00:02:45.820]perpetual. There's always the
[00:02:48.240]things. Um, and my nemesis is
[00:02:50.560]dinner.
[00:02:51.420]Like, honestly, what are we
[00:02:52.700]making for dinner? Oh, heaven
[00:02:54.130]help me. Like that's the bane
[00:02:55.450]of my
[00:02:55.780]existence. Anyway, the same as
[00:02:57.730]at work, right? We're never
[00:02:59.470]done. We might've accomplished
[00:03:01.430]something
[00:03:02.140]right now like we got fair done
[00:03:04.060]which is a huge giant thing but
[00:03:05.960]there's another fair next year
[00:03:08.060]or maybe it was a smaller like
[00:03:09.810]it was a small workshop or it
[00:03:11.480]was a some type of team meeting
[00:03:13.420]okay well that got done yeah
[00:03:15.320]and there's a thousand more of
[00:03:17.380]those to come so this roadside
[00:03:19.580]reflection is meant to focus on
[00:03:22.330]um don't miss the view don't
[00:03:24.790]miss the view because all those
[00:03:27.510]things
[00:03:28.220]that's the ride. That's living.
[00:03:32.060]Every big and little one of
[00:03:34.790]them is the journey. And
[00:03:37.600]so because of these things my
[00:03:39.680]family has shared with me and
[00:03:41.760]my reflection on them the past
[00:03:44.040]couple of years, kind of really
[00:03:45.840]wanting to shift the way I
[00:03:47.240]frame these things in my brain.
[00:03:49.220]I'm absolutely wanting to
[00:03:51.130]celebrate the accomplishment at
[00:03:53.580]the end, but I also just as
[00:03:55.480]badly want
[00:03:56.360]to celebrate the stillness. I
[00:03:58.980]also desperately want to
[00:04:01.030]celebrate the new beginning or
[00:04:03.560]the middle.
[00:04:04.820]I want to look at the
[00:04:06.660]windshield or look up from a
[00:04:09.310]walk or even just look down
[00:04:11.840]while I'm resting
[00:04:13.700]and notice. Just notice that
[00:04:15.980]moment, that little thing or
[00:04:18.180]that big thing because all of
[00:04:20.290]that
[00:04:21.460]paints the whole picture. All
[00:04:24.610]of that is the journey. That's
[00:04:27.740]all the ride. So
[00:04:29.560]thanks for listening, Ascension.

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Our work is infinite, but we are not. Accept it and be content in our accomplishments.

Jay Jenkins
07/24/25 4:44 pm

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