This morning I woke up around eleven o’clock and was a bit shocked. It was the first morning in a few weeks where I didn’t set an alarm to wake myself because I didn’t have anything scheduled in particular. Amy had gotten up earlier and went off to a workout session, came back and started preparing breakfast. Based on the way I felt rolling out of bed I must have been pretty well behind on sleep. During the week, I often get around six hours of sleep per night and sometimes less. I’ve found that about seven and a half hours seems to be the amount of sleep that works best for me, yet somehow struggle to get that much during most weeks.

After readying myself for the day I cleaned off the glass table in our backyard while Amy brought out our breakfast and coffees. As we sat there eating, we began to discuss our various projects and things that we wanted to accomplish this weekend. We watched a few monarch butterflies floating around the flowers and at times just sat in silence enjoying each other’s company and the beautiful late-morning air. As the Minnesota summer begins to fade into fall, we know that we’ll have less and less of these warm mornings to enjoy outside.

Last week, I pressed a single button on my iPhone and a few minutes later a black Lincoln Town Car pulled up in front of me. A friendly gentleman rolled down the passenger window and said, “Hi! Anthony?” I got into the back of his car and he took me to dinner. Well, at least he took me to where I was going to be having dinner. It was only several years ago when getting to the restaurant would’ve been less convenient.

Imagine when you were born, a divine being placed a secret amount of money into an account. Every day, you are given a disbursement from this account. Spend all the money given to you that day or lose it forever.

As life continues, the available money may fluctuate. For some, usable money each day begins to diminish, until one day, expectedly, no money is left. Others may lose their money suddenly and unexpectedly.