Joanie and I just finished a four-day backpacking adventure, hiking through woodlands and along ridgelines roughly paralleling Lake Superior. Carrying 45 pounds up and down steep inclines is a wonderful way to slow the pace of life and shift one’s experience of time. A couple nights ago in the tent, camped next to rippling waters, during that inner twilight just before sleep, this came to me.
Always Now
Hurry Hurry
Eat Fast
Work Fast
Go Fast
You Say
You Have
Less Time
Life Says
You’re Timeless
Always Now
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P.S. When the busy-ness gets overwhelming, we may be tempted to conclude there’s just no time. What if, in some deeper way, we’re right about that?