I stared at a cloud while lounging at the pool yesterday. It’s become a rhythm for our family as we slip into the last month of summer—a quiet morning, an afternoon by the pool, an evening of climbing at the gym, with some work and good meals thrown about in between.
I love this! I have often worried about trying to still my mind when having an experience, to stay in the moment, but it's precisely the being in the moment that often leads to my swirl of thoughts and words!
Mostly unrelated: have you found the Jane Austen Diet book to be fat-phobic? I was really interested, but the last line of the description I found stopped me short - "After all, it's still a truth universally acknowledged - Jane Austen's heroines don't get fat."
When I find myself so moved by a moment that I feel I need to record it(often at the back of a book!), as evidence I have gone that much deeper, that I crossed into, not just over. Returning to that moment is like coming up for air to reinsert until the next deep dive. I need the breaths because if I dive for too long it's difficult to return(aka I get crabby with my loved ones🤣)
"Presence distracts us from our problems but ushers us into a better way forward because we recognize that we are connected to the world around us." i love this
I love this piece, and this poem. The last paragrpash really caught me and stilled me: "I’ll pause and breathe, and with the breathing, I’ll create and use the medicine I know best, because it’s the very thing that will get me through to the next moment." This is so remarklable, lovely and insightful. I will use it as a mantra in these days.
We are holding music camp at our church this week, and the delightful sounds of the children, youth and adults ringing, singing, drumming, blowing, picking, stringing, whacking and laughing are mindful meditation bells for the pesent moment. And a beautiful reminder of how love finds it way through all of the muck and murck to our gentle hearts.
Your writing brings out the same emotions in me. Thank you!
I love this! I have often worried about trying to still my mind when having an experience, to stay in the moment, but it's precisely the being in the moment that often leads to my swirl of thoughts and words!
Mostly unrelated: have you found the Jane Austen Diet book to be fat-phobic? I was really interested, but the last line of the description I found stopped me short - "After all, it's still a truth universally acknowledged - Jane Austen's heroines don't get fat."
When I find myself so moved by a moment that I feel I need to record it(often at the back of a book!), as evidence I have gone that much deeper, that I crossed into, not just over. Returning to that moment is like coming up for air to reinsert until the next deep dive. I need the breaths because if I dive for too long it's difficult to return(aka I get crabby with my loved ones🤣)
"Presence distracts us from our problems but ushers us into a better way forward because we recognize that we are connected to the world around us." i love this
I love this piece, and this poem. The last paragrpash really caught me and stilled me: "I’ll pause and breathe, and with the breathing, I’ll create and use the medicine I know best, because it’s the very thing that will get me through to the next moment." This is so remarklable, lovely and insightful. I will use it as a mantra in these days.
We are holding music camp at our church this week, and the delightful sounds of the children, youth and adults ringing, singing, drumming, blowing, picking, stringing, whacking and laughing are mindful meditation bells for the pesent moment. And a beautiful reminder of how love finds it way through all of the muck and murck to our gentle hearts.
Your writing brings out the same emotions in me. Thank you!