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THIS WILL TAKE SOME TIME
Thursday Mar. 10, 2016
Taking some time.
We use this term willy-nilly.
Explains things …
Taking time to think things over.
Taking a vacation.
Making a space between jobs.
Spa day.
Rest between dinner and desert.
Not responding immediately to an event, presentation, comment …
Meditating.
Or, morning ritual between waking and starting the day.
Or, sitting quietly on a shore waiting for something to arrive on a wave, or brainwave.
In one direction, on one thought, one theme. Just one. Just for a minute …
Taking some time implies simply absence of rush, without hurry or worry.
Waiting for time to pass, and alas, it has. Those minutes can feel like hours. Busy brain inside a quieted body produce stillness to match, or run off in a thousand directions all at once. Or in one.
Take some time …
Mark Kolke
written / published from Calgary, AB
morning walk: 0C/32F, cloud bank on the horizon blocking the sun – the rest of the sky bright blue but without the sun’s early glare, calm – but Gusta had a mulit-rabbit chases reason for exercising her restriction of the long leash to the chagrin of my rotator cuff, but it was invigorating. And inspiring, to see ear tips and feet on those rabbits starting to turn brown – though the big-white coat suggests to me they might know something I don’t about the weather …
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