Holiday Monday: feels like a Sunday,
but that day has passed, so it’s better.
An extra day, any way, for just doing
whatever you need to do. Or nothing.
Some days you need to do what you feel
like doing. It is as simple as that.
Maybe today you can catch up on those
things you never seem to get around to?
Or, maybe today you can put off planning
and allow the day to unfold as it should.
Maybe today is that kind of day?
Maybe today can be better?
05/22/2023 j.g.l.
It is all-too-easy to go with the flow, to become comfortable, even complacent, on the path you have chosen (or ended up on).
To exist can seem so natural, but oh-so limiting.
We all have, or had, dreams and desires.
We all have (or did) have plans or goals that have done nothing but end up collecting dust over the years.
These intentions sit latent in a static state; still dreams, but they have no pulse.
You may have even forgotten what you once wanted to do. How satisfying is that? There is no progress. There is no movement; there is hardly a shadow of what, at one time, seemed like such an exciting, inspiring idea.
What happened?
Instead of questioning why the impetus of the idea stopped, question instead why you stopped moving forward. The answer itself may be the inspiration you need to get going.
Pick up those once-vivid pans and put them into action. Forward is more than a direction.
Get moving.
05/21/2023 j.g.l.
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05/18/2023 j.g.l.
Routinely we are focused on what is ahead.
As we continue striving to move forward, and we do or we try, we seem to be living in the shadow of what has happened or going through the motions of making it happen.
Somehow the process of progress is so ingrained in us that we fail, or fear, taking the time to simply be in the present. Instead of living in the moment, we are truthfully loosing the moment by not paying attention to where we are.
I noticed Saturday.
On the way to an appointment, and realizing I was earlier than I intended (or needed) to be, I stopped half a block away and sat for a moment to collect my thoughts.
I looked above me to the tree I was enjoying the shade of, now fully leaved in the resplendent greens of spring. A week back, if I even noticed as I walked on, the tree at the time was, like me, simply trying to get by.
I can’t recall.
I hadn’t bothered looking up or looking around.
I didn’t take the time to check in with my surroundings
It is sad really, we all seem so pointlessly busy and caught up in the process.
If we are all hoping for progress, we should at least take the time to notice.
Take a little time today to simply be.
05/15/2023 j.g.l.
There is always a reason,
there always was.
A motivation, the initial
inspiration, an explanation,
interest, enthusiasm or a
passion (even obsession):
what moves you?
It is a drive. But why?
More than the where or
the when, the why began
the all-consuming interest.
We all have our reasons.
We all have our wonders.
We all have our why.
Remember the why.
It is still within you.
05/12/2023 j.g.l.