Although I am mindful of being lucky enough to have this amazing place to be, ability to move my body as I run with my dogs watching the sun rise, the days still seem to tick by with a speed which is dizzying. The calander or this week the full moon reminds me the days have now formed a chunk of time, another chapter to mark events and life by.
Have you ever had the experience of being completely mindless, the one where you get to work and can't remember the drive there? Some days I feel as though I have made one of those drives through an entire week. And then I begin to worry that life is passing me by, the chunks of time somehow moving so fast I miss them.
We have a tendency to lump these chunks together, it is what we do as humans. Yet the days, months and years are made up of a million moments which pass through leaving memories, biology and psychology in their wake.
This morning as I watched the moon, a beautiful orange globe, framed in the black of the pre-dawn horizon, I realized I was doing it right. I am naturally intense in my personality and I tend to get caught up in trying to capture every moment and somehow imprint it in my mind and my heart to save forever. Yet as I looked watched the moon moving this morning, without being able to see it move, I realized taking the time to sit and appreciate it, is all I really need to do. I don't have to do it better than that, just stopping and noticing.
In the next 30 days, I plan to do something that's been on my "to do" list for quite some time. I am going to take a photograph every day, just one, just one of my "moment" whether it's my view, my dogs, or anything else that makes me stop and look, taking in the moment. I am not going to worry about the pictures being perfect or even good, just an acknowledgment of the moment. If I had to guess I would say my notebook will have mostly pictures of my dogs, trails and the horizon. I look forward to looking back in hindsight and seeing how the chapter comes together.
