back to basics…
I think I am finally getting my life back into a comfortable (and managable) shape after what has felt like a bit of an up-and-down time.
I’ve had a very pleasant weekend pottering around, working on a few things and having plenty of naps and good food.
I seem to have forgotten a lot about pacing myself, enjoying the small things - basically being present and living my life. Maybe I’ve turned a corner. I hope so…
Sitting down with a coffee and a book is suddenly a pleasure again. It feels like an age since I’ve just been lost in a book - not particularly wanting to finish it, not caring what happens next. Just being happy with the page I’m on. Of course this is a blatant metaphor for how to live my life. I’ll try and remember…
May 1st, 2005 at 9:06 pm
Michael, this is such great news! Congratulations on a corner turned. Care to spill the name of this compelling new book?
Laura/laurelines
May 1st, 2005 at 11:29 pm
there’s a book called “the power of now” by Eckhart Tolle which is all about the idea of happiness through living in the moment - but I’ve not read it - it sounds a bit new agey, but I’ve heard great things about it though
May 2nd, 2005 at 3:17 am
Michael - I just postd my own blog and then got a cuppa and popped over to read yours. I was amazed and thrilled the we both wrote about the same ‘moments’ in time. Glad to be on the same ‘happy’ page as you.
May 4th, 2005 at 8:25 am
Love the new layout of the site and the way the sketch changes on the front page each time I hit the refresh button.
Getting the pace right is such a huge undertaking it seems to me it really can only be moment by moment day by day which is difficult when waiting rooms need to be sat in, prescriptions collected, phone answered and washing machine filled and emptied with unseemly regularity:0)
Becoming caught in a web created by expectation, mine and others ,just leads to a bloody mess in every sense of that phrase so starting each day deliberately with silence, stillness and thought helps me set the tone for the rest of the day though I often end up ’singing’ off key.
For me, when I drink just a glass of juice to break the fast rather than making my bowl of porridge with honey and soy milk and savouring every mouthful is signal I’m in danger of missing the day and finding myself in heap at the end of it. That this daily porridge may not be made and eaten sometimes before noon because of physical constraints is part of the charm. It’s not at set time as in minutes and hours but set time as in when I am ready and able. I metaphorically eat that bowl of porridge throughout the day too as the image and rememberence draws me back to stillness, silence and thought.
Seems it might be tea and biscuits for you:0)
May 5th, 2005 at 8:05 am
Hello, Ive just discovered your site via flickr (where Ive added you as a contact; hope thats ok!). Fab stuff, LOVE those drawings. Thanks for making my toast and earl grey this morning a delight!