Wednesday, April 8, 2009

April 8

It's Wednesday and this week is flying by. I am amazed by the amount of time it takes to tackle my to-do list. Between writing blogs, keeping up with reading my friends wonderful blogs, facebook, twitter, queries, revisions and a couple of other things there is as they say- major time suckich going on...

I know I have a tendency to do too much at once, but my brain is like a crow flitting from branch to branch going-"oooh, look, shiny... no wait-shinier!"

I was thinking about why I try to stuff so much stuff into my life- I think it's because I want to live as much life as possible. I don't want to miss anything. Still, perhaps I should learn from my dogs and just lie still in a patch of sunlight, breath in and out and know that this moment- this bit of life- is worth experiencing fully without thought for the next shiny bit.

3 comments:

  1. I can identify with that!

    I go and go and do and do until I hit a moment when I just have to stop - and then I lie around for an hour or so, just like your dogs. And it's kinda nice...

    L. Diane Wolfe
    www.circleoffriendsbooks.blogspot.com
    www.spunkonastick.net
    www.thecircleoffriends.net

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  2. Sometimes it's so hard to tell myself to shut down, relax and do nothing.

    I guess it's because writing and marketing are more fun to me than lots of other things.

    Morgan Mandel
    http://morganmandel.blogspot.com

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  3. It's interesting, while I was going through clippings, I came across an article talking about what life would be like if we lived more slowly, at a normal human pace, had time to spend with our families and friends, to walk instead of drive - how much more natural and satisfying a life that would be.

    The article was from 1996, and think how much things have sped up even since then!

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