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I needed to do something - anything just something that involved activity , moving around
I decided to take a walk.
I saw things I had always failed to see along the route that I had take many times before.
– the type of trees and their shape,
the grass and the occasional dandelions.
I paid attention to the feeling of my legs moving.
I felt myself breathing.
I experimented with a springier step.
I walked slower and then faster.
I was like a little kid walking for the first time.
The most important thing was that it made it easy to stop thinking about past and future.”
I wrote the following that traced one of my bad moods - what I went
through from beginning to end. It starts out with the situation of
my bad mood and tells the story of how I got out of the bad mood.
Life as Archeology
When you clean grain , you save the grain and you throw out the stems.
The columbine sucks up, shreds and dumps the chaff
to go back to the ground from whence it came.
Well I am done with the sucking up part
and now I am trying to decide what to shred
And what is the important part.
I thought - Now there are only two thing=, two lives meaningful to me
and those are my kids, Ross and Maurade.
Two - that is all.
I thought they were the immutables.
But they have their own lives now and have their own reminder lists.
And I am seldom on their lists
You can’t defrost the past and expect it to taste the same.
You and I and the present moment are constantly reborn…
if we can just direct our eyes and focus our attention …
To here….
To now…..