...I love to linger in a cafe sipping chai with my friend Kate. In my favorite bookshop while peeking at everyone else's choices of reading enchantment. I love to linger on the trails with my dog and the sun dappled paths. Shop windows with striped, polkadot and paisley materials...
I read this post today...linger... from the blog Persisting Stars....lingering...savouring...relishing....
All things I don't do enough....
I've felt the lack so sharply lately, as I rush between jobs and my kids. My 20 minutes sitting outside at Panera or Starbucks on my lunch, under the beautiful spring sky here in Florida, good book at hand, is never quite enough.
There is always that sense of deadline and due dates and appointments....
I need to linger more....
So in the spirit of Madelyn's inspiring post, here is my list of lingering I want (and so need) to do....
I need to.....
...linger on the beach as the sun rises, and illuminates the ocean with pinks and yellows and reds my camera can never quite capture, but my heart sees completely
...linger at a sidewalk cafe, with tea and a good book, a drawing pad and my pens
...linger in green places in nature, where I can walk or sit. Listen. Feel. Be.
...linger in used bookstores and old bookstores, letting my eyes and my fingers have equal say in the books I choose
...linger over my artwork, giving myself the time and patience and space to arrange and rearrange and re-create
...linger in prayer, stepping beyond the forms and words prescribed and praying with images and ideas and a full heart
...linger in bed on weekend mornings, enjoying the sounds from the woods and the color of the sunlight through the trees
...linger with my children, creating precious unhurried puddles of time when we don't have to be anywhere or accomplish anything
...linger in beautiful places, where I am suddenly entranced, instead of filing it away under the "someday I'll come back here when I have more time" category
...linger with my soulmate, allowing us time to be together in silence without feeling that we need to check activities off an agenda
So where do you linger? And perhaps more importantly, where do you need to linger?
2 comments:
Lingering is good.
I have vowed to "waste" more time doing "nothing."
Carrie, I am with you 100%! Spent my Sunday doing just that with my family, and I feel amazing! A good lesson to learn!
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