It all started with the bananas.
I went to buy two bananas at the deli on my way into work.  I reached into my bag to grab my wallet and it wasn't there.  I could distinctly remember putting it in my bag earlier that morning!  I asked the girl if I could pay her tomorrow and she said that was fine.  Baffled about the whereabouts of my wallet, I left with my bananas.
I stopped just outside the deli, determined to search my bag more thoroughly.  As I put down the bag and the bananas, I noticed something tucked under my arm.  It was my wallet.  
It's amazing how the brain can go into full auto-pilot mode sometimes.  As someone who tries to live a life of presence and awareness, these moments of complete lack of consciousness catch me by surprise.  When did I take my wallet out of my bag?  And I tucked it under my arm?!  I had no clue I had done that.  I probably have more moments like these then I care to think about - the Universe simply protects me from my own foolishness by not telling me about them.
Great way to start the new year!
pace e bene,