Found Object

I’ve gradually started using the little notepad function on the iPhone instead of relying on the grubby scraps of post-it notes that collect in pockets, purses, and the glove compartment. I have a note of movies I want to see, a living grocery list that I try to keep current as we run low on things and I re-stock, a list of books to check for in used bookstores and the library, games and exercises for practicing with the kids that didn’t make it into their practice notebooks, a list of things to be done, divided into the short term, the medium term and the long term, organized by how much time each will require, the balancing of urgency and importance, and, among all of these useful ones, I find this one, typed in the middle of a furious cleaning of the kids’ play area –