Who am I to write about time that Grand Marshall of our Lives? Not even Einstein could master time or its delicate nature, tick tock, but I figure, time runs me and maybe you too, so why not go for it? Sometimes you just gotta go for it!
I had my first migraine headache on Friday, didn't know it was coming. Might have asked it to let me know it was coming, but I didn't have time in all the doings of a life. Spent the day in bed not that I minded that, just didn't know how to handle the pain except handle it. Get through it, feel it and let it in since it was there to be had.
I am of the belief that things happen when they need to and on time at that. Try baking without timing right. Try jogging for the first time for hours. Try staying too long in a sauna or sitting too long in meditation, you might go loopy. Things have their time and we need to be attentive.
This morning I found the blog I needed called
Slow Love Life. Amazing how the author writes with flow and kindness, attention to detail and light examples. I love her! And gorgeous photos. And gorgeous thoughts. And just gorgeousness all over the page. It's akin to the slow food movement, where we attend to love in our lives with slow care, with feeling gratitude, with loving kindness. Slow love life: at first I thought it was going to be about finding love late in life (;-) but then what it really is is just as good! S l o w i n g down certainly makes for having more time. Try it: slow down.
Calling my Dad, I need to attend to time. There's a tacit agreement: Do not call after 8 pm. I do not call after 8 pm. No one does who knows him! And we sort of love this about him, though we might mock it once every two or three years.
When I was younger, I played the "I'm won't read that book" game. That is any book that everyone was talking about I would poo-poo. Taking a superior stance I thought any book that everyone is reading can't be literature and so I won't read it. Well, I've changed. Or at least I picked up one of those books recently and I can't put it down. Ann Patchet's
Bel Canto has already taken my breath away and I'm only on page 14. How is it that we get what we get when it's time?
Don't know but it's late now and I've decided to get upstairs to read.
spring is arriving in asheville..........even though it snowed flakes of snow last night, she's arriving in all her light pink glory.....praise the fruit trees, the dogwoods, the birds tweeting news of sunshine and new grass. maybe they sense that bird feeders are full as humans awaken to our own awakeness, newly discovering what is always here: life.
even in the bleakest yards, colors amplify our senses. spring is the season of love bursting like it's never been felt before. winter has taken its toll for sure, again, but wait here's spring reminding us of love. how could we forget? easy! because putting on coats and hats and gloves and layers upon layers makes us forget. winter's hard. so we get spring to balance us out! hooray for the universe; she's the best mother nature ever.
so. enjoy your spring, however it's transforming you. good luck with your gardens, your planting, your reaping what you sow!
What an opportunity. I wondered how I might help the Japanese people, and walking into Earthfare found the way. There were five young girls outside the store representing the Red Cross. Accepting checks, I wrote one out to them and walked away. How easy! Thanks girls.
Short Stories are feeding me lately....with rice cakes at my side...... Mmmmm, mmmm, good stuff, reading and rice cakes. They go so good together. Especially as the sun comes through the blinds and the heat warms folded legs. It's a Friday afternoon and I'm reading in the sun. Pssst, psst, Spring is Coming.....in all her Regalia, lillies and daffodils, svelte and audacious, she's on her way. Little sprites are popping out of the ground; to see them along the path is to be surprised, an instant smile inside. They are sneaky, little messengers, harbingers of long days to come. ....Maybe you'll find time to read a short story or two:
Yoga and baking and sitting and reading and loving it. Snow in Asheville, incredible walks with Scout and a new book's ideas about how to stay well. I recommend it below.
There's been a lot visiting Barnes and Noble lately: And this book is convincing though I didn't buy it. I've just read it in the store!
The 25 practices include plant-based diet; adequate sleep; exercise; yoga; satisfying relationships; positive attitude, taking cold showers, eating dirt, and dousing in hydrogen peroxide, brewer's yeast, probiotics, alkalizing diets, and detoxification + the placebo effect!
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