Never ever in my life have I wrote blogs, and rarely read blogs, however this is a new experience I welcome. I'm looking forward to paying greater attention to the details in nature to write about, amongst other thoughts and observations.
Andrea, I relate completely to your conflicted comments about winter. January has always been a month for me to survive, to get through. However, as a teacher, I have grown to really love the snow days that we get and I so appreciate the time off to contemplate the now. I am the type of person who goes a mile a minute, and even though I am a writer, it's still easy for me to use my writing to stay stuck in past and lose track of the beauty of "now."
Meditation has really helped me with staying in the moment. I, too, marvel at my dog's imagined ability to stay in the now. Do we know this for sure? That dogs and animals don't think into the future or revel in the past? I know that dogs dream, so what is that about? Isn't that picturing the past?
Andrea, I relate completely to your conflicted comments about winter. January has always been a month for me to survive, to get through. However, as a teacher, I have grown to really love the snow days that we get and I so appreciate the time off to contemplate the now. I am the type of person who goes a mile a minute, and even though I am a writer, it's still easy for me to use my writing to stay stuck in past and lose track of the beauty of "now."
ReplyDeleteMeditation has really helped me with staying in the moment. I, too, marvel at my dog's imagined ability to stay in the now. Do we know this for sure? That dogs and animals don't think into the future or revel in the past? I know that dogs dream, so what is that about? Isn't that picturing the past?