Slow and Steady Wins the Race

I thought I would try again this weekend to coffee dye some copy paper for upcoming journals. I was not going to do it outside this time. Aside from being way too hot, I did not want papers blowing all over the place as they were drying again.

I began on Friday evening, two pages at a time since that is all my indoor drying rack will hold. Rather than hanging over them begging them to dry quickly, I just walked away and did other things. The next time I was in the kitchen I would turn them over and head off to other tasks in the house.

The progress was slow but steady. By Saturday evening, I had lots of pages coffee dyed and ready to go into the book press to flatten them. I continued to coffee dye on Sunday and have managed another stack of papers ready to put in the book press.

When not stressing about getting ALL the paper coffee dyed NOW, I have come to appreciate the saying ‘slow and steady wins the race’. I accomplished more than I expected. I won the race.