Then...

The day is bright, the skies are clear, and the temperature has cooled. It is 58 degrees fahrenheit. Today is Saturday.

It's helpful to say the day of the week. Time is doing something different these days, with the flow being both fast and intense. Things are happening at a pace that is challenging to match with the kind of attention and clarity that was easier to experience. Some say it is because we are aging and that time is just time - same as ever. But others say no. In fact, time is moving "faster" now than ever before. this is because there is so much that happens in a cycle in today's world – everything is happening perhaps as before, but our awareness of all that is happening has increased thanks to tech, telecommunications, transportation capabilities, all of which brings so much more into a day, a month, a year.

There's something about the relationship between aging and the fact of time moving at a different pace - IF we get caught up in all of that we can easily believe that slowing down is the reason for things seeming to move faster. The "that" is what was mentioned before – the increase in capacity to tap into the ability to access information (tech), the interminable sending/receiving communications of all kinds (telecom), the ability to move across time zones with relative ease if you're middle or upper middle class and can afford to drive, rail, fly, or cruise. Things that were not so easily accessed in past generations, are pretty accessible in today's world.

Watching what is happening is an invitation. How to skillfully make it all stop and slow down. No matter what kind of life one is leading, it is possible to stop and change the relationship to all that is happening. Sitting in a field, in a car, in a kitchen, anywhere - to simply stop the chatter, stop the search, stop the compulsion to "get things done.".

It might feel uncomfortable, challenging, and even "wrong" to just be still and allow whatever is going on to keep going - without you.

Sadly, too often the stopping comes without a choice to take a break. In other words, the pause is forced due to illness, an accident that requires attending to the body. These are times when you realize that the mind was putting the body into overdrive and the spirit was with you for a while but then just decided to take a break and let your mind keep driving whatever you needed to do, for whatever the reason to do it.

Of course, there is the reality that as we move through the space/time continuum, our equipment simply begins to wear out. And our energy downshifts. Lots of people move from mind pushing them along and the body cooperating, until it doesnt. Then - Spirit finally returns when we are ready to go beyond what mind and body can offer in life.