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		<title>Seizing the Moment to Do Nothing</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Last weekend I spent an entire day reading a book. (I&#8217;m a pretty avid reader, but even by my standards, this was a lot.) Not because I didn’t have anything else to do. Life’s administrative duties were still there, lurking, prodding, waiting in various degrees of perpetual disarray, clamoring to be...</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last weekend I spent an entire day reading a book. (I&#8217;m a pretty avid reader, but even by my standards, this was a lot.) Not because I didn’t have anything else to do. Life’s administrative duties were still there, lurking, prodding, waiting in various degrees of perpetual disarray, clamoring to be sorted, cleaned, tended ~ things I’m normally all too willing to oblige with great habit of responsibility and an ever-present urge to be productive. This doesn’t even count the paintings wanting to be painted, the stories to write, music to make, dreams to chase. Toss some work in there, too.</p>
<p>For a good 12 hours, I abandoned all of it, hermitting myself inside the pages of a book.  &#8220;Just because.&#8221; Phone off, computer off. Very unsociable, actually.</p>
<p>And life went on. It was lovely.</p>
<p>I’m not suggesting that reading resembles a waste of one’s time (au contraire!), but it does involve letting go of more “pressing things”. That said, I’m always a bit envious of people who seem capable of being unproductive with great and natural ease. But it’s never too late, and I’m still learning. Balancing the have-tos and want-tos and need-tos and can-waits. Knowing when to <em>be</em> and when to <em>do</em>, and trusting that it all has a place in this beautiful, chaotic, imperfect dance of life.</p>
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<p style="padding-left:30px;text-align:center;"><i>……………………….</i></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><i>Beauty and chaos<br />
</i><i>Light and shadow<br />
</i><i>Sun and moon,<br />
</i><i>The dance of life.</i></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><i></i><i>Balancing<br />
</i><i>on shifting sands<br />
</i><i>on best intentions<br />
</i><i>Drinking from the well<br />
</i><i>of change ~<br />
</i><i>Ebbing, flowing,<br />
</i><i>Breathing, being,<br />
</i><i style="line-height:1.5em;">Marvelously</i><i><br />
</i><i>Magnificently<br />
</i><i>Irresistibly<br />
</i><i>flawed.</i></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">~ P. Saxton</p>
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