My Portable Heart.

What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking and Sacred Space →

1 year ago
#downtime #leisure #thinking #sacred #space #time #distraction

Shadow Thoughts.

You know when you’re lying awake in bed with (too many) thoughts running around keeping you awake and some things feel like they’re really important (necessary even), and certain things will seem like a really good idea. You’ll want to rush up and send a message to someone, or post something online, or call someone and you feel like it’s something you really have to do. But then, upon waking up and having slept on them giving them time to unravel and expand in your mind, they’ve seemed to have dispersed into nothing, leaving only distant shadows of a thought you don’t have any compulsion to entertain?

What do you do with those?

1 year ago
#B. T. Dubs #This is one of them #awake #insomnia #insomniatic dreams #over-thinking #thinking #thoughts #Shadow Thoughts

“Spring wind blew my list of things to do away…”

It’s a wonderful feeling sometimes, to have nothing to do.After coming out of a long year of school, being downtown everyday surrounded by the constant motion that takes place there — watching people go from one place to another, never stopping to look at what is around them, wherever they are — it is a much needed, and appreciated change of pace. Everyone would jump from one class, one task, to another; they wouldn’t take time between, even though they had it. I would see people go from one class, and a soon as it’s over they’re minds would already be in the next class, even as they walked down the street — they wouldn’t really be there, walking down the street, or through the park, looking at the things and people that were around them, they’d already be on the next pass. I learned to look at people and what was around me — you know, actually looking at their faces while I passed by, instead of being caught up in my own head.

It’s a wonderful feeling when you have an entire day to just sit in fresh air, taking it in, (playing guitar or listening to [folk]music) just sitting in the moment with nothing to do. When busyness is dead and you don’t let yourself become a victim to worry you’ll find that you can breathe; that the moment is wholly yours to appreciate. It is a really satisfying change of pace to the constant movement and noise that you can find everywhere.

“Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand”

1 year ago
#breathe #cool hand luke #jack johnson #music #nothing #poem #thinking #wind #writing

I <3 Long Showers…

Long showers are awesome!

One of my favourite parts of the day is when I get into a hot shower and relax. There is the obvious comfort that comes with the warmth, the relaxation, and of course the feeling of getting clean, but there is more to it than that. For me at least, the shower is one place where I can be truly alone. Alone with my thoughts, where I can consider everything that’s going on in my life and just sort of unravel it all. Sure, I can go to my room and close the door and do some thinking in there, but the shower is the one place where I won’t be interrupted. Where there is no sound except the water coming from the tap. Now that I think about it, it is in some ways the same feeling I get when I just sit by the ocean and look out on it, thinking.

-MC-

3 years ago
#shower #long showers #ocean #thinking #awesome!