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PURPOSE – Day 72 in a year of…

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Day 72, October 2, 2016 @9:44 am

img_7886Inertia and gravity are difficult to overcome. I use every excuse I can think of to avoid doing – the weather, I’m tired, I’m this, I’m that.  It’s hard to understand the why of this feeling of reluctance.  It’s more than being lazy.  It has an element of insipid dread.  I have long given up (is it really true?) trying to understand the impossible.  I used guilt to pull me up and out yesterday.  It was difficult but am happy that I rose above the dread.  I might as well put the bad stuff to good use, eh?

I’m here without my tea this morning but I’m having trouble sitting still.  I don’t have to rise above everything in life.  It is not a bad thing to pause and reset.  I will get up, stretch, put the kettle on.  Be back in awhile with my cup of tea.  Everyone breathe.

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img_1969I’m back.  I feel so much better, having a cup beside me to take a sip when it gets tough.  I see I can’t go cold turkey.  It’s a good thing I’m not an alcoholic.  I’ll be falling off that proverbial wagon all the time.  Perhaps I should not be so hard on myself, setting up all these challenges.  I can’t seem to help myself though.  I am challenged by challenges.  The call to better myself is hard to resist.  It makes my life purposeful.  What gives you purpose?

 

AN EXTRA CUP OF TEA – Day 71 in a year of…

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Day 71, October 1, 2016 @9:56

img_2952What is it about tea and me?  What is it about that cup of brew that brings so much pleasure and comfort?  Is it the pause it offers me – the time to put the kettle on and wait for it to whistle?  When it does, then pouring the hot water over the teabag, fishing out the bag, spooning in honey and powdered milk. Little pregnant pauses – full of deliciousness of time suspended.

 

img_5320Perhaps my next doing different could be learning/developing my own tea ceremony.  After all, I am Asian.  I came from the land of tea. I have a kimono.  I have a teapot.  I have tea.  My cupboard is filled packs of loose tea leaves from Sri Lanka – gifts from a friend.  I have been too lazy and too impatient to do the process.  My friend has discovered my laziness.  Now she gives me teabags from Sri Lanka.

My extra cup is finished.  I meander but it is Saturday. It is October 1.  It is another new month, another new beginning.  It is reason enough to celebrate. It still feels like a special day off, a suspension from the cares of the week.  I shall relish it.  How are you spending this Saturday?