TIME JUST SLIPS AWAY...

Where did this year go?  How can it possibly be almost Christmas? I can't even remember the summer...it certainly wasn't warm and lazy.  Will time just keep slipping away faster and faster as I hurtle toward the END???        

There's a lot of talk out there about savoring every moment, loving the life you live, etc. BUT what does that really mean...in an ordinary day?  For me, 'LIFE' keeps getting in the way of LIVING. There are so many things to do...and MAINTENANCE!  I hate maintenance.

Body maintenance; teeth cleaning, spinal adjustments, cholesterol labs, refilling prescriptions. House maintenace; the gutters, the furnace, the sprinkler system, the leaks, the termites.  Relationship maintenance; thank you notes, gifts, inquiries, little lunches, emails...And the everlasing dishes, garbage, laundry, cooking, eating, and shopping.  As Wordsworth says, "GETTING AND SPENDING, WE LAY WASTE OUR POWERS".

So how on earth can we carve out TIME FOR OUR SOULS?  And what would that look like if we could? What if we carefully scheduled time for our 'soul's' and then just sat there thinking about what we SHOULD be doing instead? 

I think we have to ALLOW time for our souls. Like when we feel the soft fur of a beloved pet, hear the deep strains of a favorite piece of music, see the eyes of a loved one, sense the slowing of our breath when we lie down for a nap...we need to notice it, stay with it. Experience it...

That's what I thought when I watched this seagull...just sitting there calmly amidst the wild chaos of the waves bashing on the rocks.  She seems to be 'gathering herself'...quietly holding her still-point, her standpoint.  

Maybe, as someone said, "The days of our lives must become precious..enjoy the perfection of what you are doing..."

Take YOUR time".

Comments

[Linda Kay Cunningham]

Hello,
So glad to see you're blogging again. I check back frequently and am always disappointed when you've not posted. I have been following your comments for about a year and half now.
I wanted to let you know I always learn something from you. Sometimes it maybe something I knew and needed to be reminded of, sometimes a new way too look at my life, sometimes serious, sometimes silly stuff, but always valuable.
Thank you.
Linda

[Joan]

A close friend just a few minutes ago emailed your blog link. I too am 77. Reading your thoughts is like reading a history of my own life, sans associations with famous persons, even by accidental freeway onramps. I too was tought to repress my natural modes of expression...for the same reasons..... I became keenly aware duing my middle years..that those born in the late 1930's are singular, there are not as many of us. Not many babies born then.... Not many we can relate with in the same way. And now, alone again, having lost husband of 48 years, and companion of 10 years....and no children...either to love or trouble me....I have too many choices...I found myself today, rethinking the phrase," life isn't the destination, but the journey." And I kept thinking...no, .. without a destination to be hoped for, desired...whether here, or hereafter, ..there is no journey. There is only now, this moment. So maybe the journey is the destination.

So, thank you for sharing your life thoughts. I have found a friend indeed.