I can't believe how quickly this year has passed. I guess everyone feels the same, huh? As we get older, it seems like we focus so much on the future: the task we need to finish after dinner; next week's work schedule; that dinner party in February ...
Do you remember what it was like when we were kids, though? A time when our schedule was dictated by the ringing school bell and the street lights outside. Math class was interminable! It seemed like recess would never come. How Saturday afternoons and summer days seemed to linger on and on ... The sun swept so much slower across the sky when we weren't worrying about hitting the store later on to pick up that thing we need. We were in the moment, mindful of only the "now" and our pleasure (or misery in the case of math class) in whatever that "now" consisted of.
So that's my holiday wish. May we all get lost in the magic of the moment, our own "now," relishing the joys of family, great food, maybe a few gifts, or whatever our holiday brings. And may it linger on and on and on ...
Do you remember what it was like when we were kids, though? A time when our schedule was dictated by the ringing school bell and the street lights outside. Math class was interminable! It seemed like recess would never come. How Saturday afternoons and summer days seemed to linger on and on ... The sun swept so much slower across the sky when we weren't worrying about hitting the store later on to pick up that thing we need. We were in the moment, mindful of only the "now" and our pleasure (or misery in the case of math class) in whatever that "now" consisted of.
So that's my holiday wish. May we all get lost in the magic of the moment, our own "now," relishing the joys of family, great food, maybe a few gifts, or whatever our holiday brings. And may it linger on and on and on ...
Photo by S. Chuka (with a little editing by J. Bayliss). Thanks, Sue! ;)
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