Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

When I was in Sydney Airport, gosh, what day was it?

It's so bizarre when you travel from Sydney to America because you leave on the same,

you leave on, say, a Tuesday and you arrive Tuesday night,

even though it's a 24-hour flight. And if you fly here to Sydney, from Miami to Sydney,

say you leave on a Sunday, you arrive on a Tuesday. You miss a whole day. It's endlessly confusing

to me. And it just also makes me think, wow, the world, what time is it?

Who cares? The present moment is all that counts wherever you are, no matter what. And as I was in

Sydney Airport this week, about to board my flight, I heard a woman next to me. She was sitting on a chair

next to another woman. She went, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. And I kind of spun around and had a look

at what she was apologizing for. And I wasn't sure if she took one of the woman's fries or if she

went to take the woman's phone. But she mistook

either fries or a phone for her own. I think we've all done that. I've taken someone else's

phone. I even once took someone else's laptop at airport security because we both had the same

silver mac and he came running after me. And it reminded me of this poem that I love, that I just love so

much. I'm pretty sure I've shared this on the podcast before, but it would have been a couple of

years ago. And it's a poem called The Cookie Thief by Valerie Cox. I'm going to read it to you

here today and take from this what you will, my friends. I think

there are a million lessons in this, but I will read it and kick it to you. A woman was waiting

at an airport one night with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the

airport shops, bought a bag of cookies,

and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book, but happened to see that the man sitting

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