Mini-Vacation

 After several weeks of quite intense therapy work, I am now in the midst of a super-mini break of just a week. My challenge though has been to find time to just do nothing, or to just watch the new series I have begun, "The Crown '', or to just stay in an inverted yoga pose to let blood flow counter direction from the usual. It's been a joy to have some time for these, but also a challenge because of my natural tendency into engage in house maintenance stuff. A part of me gets easily drawn into this business of removing items from my long list of to do's. Then so quickly the morning turns into afternoon and into the darkness of night. By the time we settle into a k-drama episode, oftentimes I already am on a doze off mode.

So perhaps this is just a break from therapy. Not that I don't love it, but that the balance is necessary. The balance of listening to others with listening to one's own rhythm or silence. The balance of caring for others with caring for one's own body, mind and spirit. Mini-breaks are indispensable vitamins for the soul!

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I look out the window in front of me, and I see the needle-like leaves of the tree in its greenness. The amount of leaves have grown, that I can barely see the house across the street anymore. Growth and life continue. The deep down freshness is also spread up and wide in this expanse of a window. Life goes on. Just as it will way past these COVID years. Again, I tell myself, one day at time, just live one moment at a time. No longer with any surety of how long you or I may be around, but only with the surety that we have this very moment.

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So many things have fallen away in importance. And yet so many still remain. I feel a strong desire to let more still fall away. Like a shedding of skin. Again, to ultimately come into greater awareness of what matters most. What might this be like? What might BEING, in fullness, be like? I guess we will only know by experience. We may already be in it but not in it. Or, as they say, we may know more and more of what we are not, and that may bring us closer to knowing what we might already be. Do these matter? Who knows? Maybe yes, and maybe no. 🤔 😉

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Now, for the rest of this mini-vacation, perhaps I will just err on the side of relaxation. Of just being. And going with the flow and the beauty of the moment. 

Game!