Running Ahead Of The Car

Kind Readers,

I apologize for cluttering up your airwaves this week with three blogs instead of the usual two. I know how busy you all are and how much you have to read. I was so charged up over the Stupid 10 stories that I couldn’t wait for Thursday to post My Fuzzy Lamb Expanded.

Thank you for reading Life Opening Up and a special thank you to Sandy, Alice and Margaret for sharing their Stupid 10 stories. Margaret definitely gets a 10 for her story of the car she thought she had turned off, only to find it following her across her yard into her house. What bravery she demonstrated by jumping in and turning it off rather than running into the kitchen, crouching down and hoping for the best!

(Anyone else ever left a car running that was not in Park?)

And, as Margaret mentioned in her post: it’s all about mindfulness, isn’t it? Paying attention. We need to slow down, know where we are and what we are doing. We need not to be doing one thing and thinking about five other things at the same time. We need to stop and breathe consciously now and then in order to save ourselves from ourselves.

I wonder what it would be like for us humans if we had to remember to breathe--if breath didn’t happen at all unless, in some fashion, we activated it a couple of times a day? Would we learn how to do that—if our lives depended on it---or would we just fall down in clumps all over the place, having forgotten to turn on breath according to schedule?

The Energizer Bunny keels over.

Put to that kind of test, we might actually grasp how important it is in our lives to take the time to STOP and breathe mindfully for a few moments at least once, if not several times, during each of our days.

Good, deep breathing to you all. And thanks again for reading Life Opening up.