It is easy for me to get distracted by a hundred different things that are not here and now. Politics, dreams, E-stop algorithms for AI. It is sometimes hard to be in the moment. Today I was walking from my car to my office and I walked slowly.
I listened to the chorus of cheerful birds singing.
I looked at the pretty clouds gliding overhead in the early morning light.
I took deep breaths of the cool infant spring air.
I felt the breeze mosey past.
I experienced the moment and it was good.
There are things that we can do to ground ourselves in the present. Things to help pull our heads out of the clouds (or our asses) and enjoy the moment. I think I will share more.
I sat down in my piano room and pet my cat for like one or two minutes the other day. I felt sad, because it occurred to me that in the last year I hadn't spent that much idle time in that favorite room of mine in my house. We all could use time to slow down and enjoy the now... but alas, our to-do lists always get in our way.
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