I was talking to someone who had just gotten back a few weeks ago from Ireland and the subject of the discussion was "getting away mentally". Seems as though this person felt that no cell phones and a far away place had done the trick. The guy to the left here is standing 20+ floors up near a window in Seoul Korea. He is indeed "away mentally". The question is "away from what"? Is it the day-to-day routine, some good and some not always easy, or is it that there is "no routine"? Either way there is plenty to do that makes this situation to be a good thing?
I received in the mail a poem written by a old friends wife. It was 6 pages long. It was a series of 4 lines verses, one after another and they told the story of their life together. The poem was titled "Our Adventure" and it had a subtitle also that labeled it also as a "Tribute to her friend, mentor, and loving husband". This man was my close friend also. It has been a couple of years since he passed away. What was captured in the verses and the memory was the routine of their lives. What was treasured in the verse was the regular routine even expected routine. It was a series of places, activities and events that they had spent time doing together. Nothing that was done was spectacular or even interesting in itself or probably to anyone else but it was treasured as a memory and was the background of time treasured together.
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Life should be bright around you. It should be brighter as a backdrop to who we are. We ought to be able to make the simple more interesting. The routine ought to be a treasure. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't
The Poet's Mind
Vex not thou the poet’s mind
With thy shallow wit;
Vex not thou the poet’s mind,
For thou canst not fathom it
Clear and bright it should be ever,
Flowing like a crystal river,
Bright as light, and clear as wind.
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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